Post Office launches index-linked bond as inflation falls
We look at a new account that promises savers inflation-beating returns.
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NS&I to stop sales via the Post Office
National Savings & Investments is to stop selling its accounts through the Post Office from the end of the month.
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NS&I to end Post Office accounts
National Savings and Investments says it is to stop operating its accounts via the Post Office.
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Deal of the week: Post Office Inflation Linked Bond
Timely relaunch allows savers to keep pace with the rising cost of living
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Irish taxpayer could guarantee Post Office savings
The Irish taxpayer could in future replace the British as the ultimate guarantor of the Post Office savings banks, according to ratings agency Moody’s.
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Post Office launches inflation-beating savings bond
Savers have been thrown a lifeline by the Post Office, which has announced the launch of the third issue of its popular Inflation-Linked Bond.
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Minister enters cash access row
A minister wants HSBC and Santander to allow customers to withdraw cash from the Post Office but the banks are questioning demand.
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The best inflation linked accounts on the market
The Post Office has extended its inflation linked savings account, but what other options are there for savers?
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Post Office extends inflation linked savings account due to demand
Good news for savers – the Post Office has extended its popular inflation linked savings bonds due to demand.
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Computer problem hits Post Office
Normal service is resumed after a computer problem blocked access for 3.3 million customers with Post Office card accounts, the organisation says.
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Post Office computer glitch hits up to 3.3 million accounts
A computer problem left up to 3.3m Post Office account holders unable to access their savings through PIN pad machines for most of Wednesday.
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Deal of the week: Travel Money Card Plus
Post Office launches new version of prepaid travel card, allowing holidaymakers to top up their balances by text
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How do the inflation-linked accounts stack up?
There are two types of inflation linked accounts. Some, like the Post Office account, and the one run by NS&I pay a fixed level of interest plus the rate of RPI. Other providers pay a fixed rate of interest plus the change in the level of RPI.
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Post Office launches inflation beating savings bonds
The Post Office is taking on its former partner, National Savings & Investment, by launching a second issue of its own inflation-linked bonds.
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Anger as benefits deal snubs Post Office
Ministers have angered subpostmasters, unions and the consumer watchdog by awarding the contract for a new service to replace welfare cheques to Citibank
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Blow to Post Office: giro cheques scrapped for 250,000
More than a quarter of a million people, many of them vulnerable pensioners, will no longer be able to cash their benefit cheques at the Post Office, after the Government awarded the contract to a rival operator.
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Post Office inflation-linked bond
The Post Office has launched a five-year savings bond paying interest of 1.5 percentage points above the retail prices index (RPI) until 27 May 2016
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Savers offered respite from perils of inflation
Yorkshire Building Society and the Post Office have launched inflation-linked bonds.
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Three weeks left to use your Post Office savings stamps
The Post Office is urging holders of £1m worth of savings stamps to scour
their drawers and purses for them now, because they will not be able to
spend them after the end of this month.
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