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Pension transfers are a big decision and transferring out of a final salary scheme is rarely good advice. However, many people were advised to do that due to negligent financial advice. Evans Hughes are financial mis-selling experts and specialise in helping clients claim compensation when they have been given negligent financial advice to transfer their pensions.
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It has been estimated that around 50% of UK businesses use an energy broker to find them a competitive deal on their business energy. Unfortunately, an industry-wide problem is coming to light which shows that many companies have been mis-sold gas and electricity. Third parties are charging commissions that are not made explicitly clear from the outset, resulting in much higher energy charges.
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Push payment fraud is a very serious crime, and the victims can suffer financial loss and distress as well as loss of privacy. In many push payment scams, banks are reluctant to compensate. So, people can be left not knowing where to turn.
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One of the most popular questions we are asked all the time is 'how long does a disrepair claim take?' This is completely understandable, clients have often been through a huge trauma and put up with problems for a very long time, with very little action from their council or housing association.
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Staff at Arup have had personal details, which is said to include bank details, names and addresses, stolen after the engineering firm’s external payroll supplier was hit by a cyber attack. Symatrix, which is contracted to handle the payroll for Arup’s 6,000 UK staff, was hit by a cyber attack in mid-January. It has not been disclosed how many staff may have been affected by the data breach.
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The north west rail network Merseyrail has confirmed a cyberattack after a ransomware gang used their email system to email employees and journalists about the attack. Employee and potentially customer information has been compromised during this data breach.
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Over 67% of companies use an energy broker to source the best deal, what you may not know is the size of their hidden commissions. You will be shocked by the size of some hidden payments.
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Evans Hughes are investigating a possible Data Breach at Chesterfield High School in Crosby, Merseyside. If you, your child or anyone you know is aged 16-17 years old now and attended the school in February 2019 then they could have been affected.
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Authorised Push Payment fraud is now the second biggest type of payment fraud in Britain, both in terms of the total value involved and the number of scams which have taken place. The recent pandemic has only seen cases rise dramatically.
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Total Fitness have revealed to their customers that they recently experienced a sophisticated Data Breach.
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We currently represent a number of clients who had a Green Deal funded by Green Deal Express. Inaccurate property assessments that have lead to clients claiming back payments and asking for the plan to be removed from their property.
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With around 9 in 10 new cars purchased through PCP deals, it’s now come to light that car salespeople have been overcharging customers in a bid to earn more commission.
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Cyber crime is on the rise, in the last 12 months, 46% of businesses reported a cyber attack, and 32% of those attacked happened more than once every week.
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Thousands of people in the UK have been subject to undisclosed commission on financial products they have been sold, with many customers completely unaware the commission payments existed.
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