🫂Latest on carer's allowance: how Davina Ware was forced to pay back nearly £4,000 after calculating her earnings as a monthly income, as she believed the DWP required, rather than a four-weekly cycle.

Ware's husband has had Parkinson's for 20 years.

theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Loving working with a new #UKMFG and #Engineering client.

Brand new report from Green Alliance on What people actually want from Greener Fashion drops on Monday. We’ll be here to give you the highlights and the experts. Sign up now. Free online event! eventbrite.co.uk/e/changing-fas… #sustainablefashion #fashion

'A lack of consistency with #probate applications means it is difficult to tell a client just how long their case could take'

Jo Summers, partner in our private tax and wealth team & STEP spokesperson, at the Justice Committee inquiry into #probate delays on Tues.

This afternoon STEP member Jo Summers TEP will be sharing evidence with the UK Parliament's Justice Committee in connection with STEP's response to the inquiry earlier this year into probate delays in England and Wales.

Watch here at 2.30pm: bit.ly/3Jly1qH

#Probate

The DWP has ordered a 92-year-old woman with advanced Parkinson’s to repay more than £7,000 for a tiny benefits oversight five years ago - when she was in the early stages of dementia

Full story: theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

#youandyours anyone out there with solar panels and a home battery? Love to hear from you with view to doing a short recording about it

This will be such a great tour. Such a fantastic business.

If you haven't seen, the April edition of #insiderswest is now out! 🥂Read my interview with Protect Line Ltd - Life Insurance's Jo and David Brewer on their journey from beauty business to £22m life insurance venture: insidermedia.com/south-west/ste…

#april2024mag #swbusinessnews

You’ll have to forgive our slight departure from usual content but I’m sure you’ll appreciate as this is quite, quite beautiful.

Curt Smith of Tears For Fears singing 'Mad World' with his Daughter. The harmonies! 🧡

We are pleased to share that STEP members Nina Sperring TEP from Price Slater Gawne and Jade Gani TEP from Circe Law featured on BBC Radio 4's BBC Money Box programme this afternoon.

Listen to the episode: bit.ly/3PDrueq

#STEPProfile #Wills

STEP member Robin Melley TEP, Chartered MCSI, FLIBF. TEP from Matrix Capital has written an article for Financial Planning Today website about the benefits of being a member of professional bodies, including STEP, as well as becoming a TEP.

Read the article: bit.ly/4ay1VmX

#STEPProfile #STEPMembership

Don't miss your chance to showcase the outstanding work of your team and firm over the past year at this year's STEP Private Client Awards. Entries are open until 12 April 2024. Find out more at buff.ly/3OFP8GB STEP #STEPPCA

We're looking at renting next week on @MoneyBox Live - and I want to hear from you. Does it work well for you? What frustrates you about renting? Do you expect to rent forever? Let me know - DMs open

Today STEP member Jo Summers TEP from Jurit LLP appeared on BBC Radio 4's programme You and Yours talking about probate delays and answering listener queries.

Listen now: bit.ly/43xn6n8

#STEPProfile #ProbateDelays

STEP's Technical Counsel and Head of Government Affairs, Emily Deane TEP, has been featured in this article from The Times and The Sunday Times about delays to probate in England and Wales.

Read the article: bit.ly/3TRnw4g

#STEPProfile #Probate

On This Day... 21st March 1994

“I know you're gonna let him bore your pants off again...”

Pulp - Do You Remember The First Time?

Quite simply, as good as popular music singles get. Masterpiece.

Love this David Nieper is an amazing #FamilyBusiness

Still looking for someone on this .. possibly a person who is now ditching a tracker for a fixed rate after waiting a long time #journorequest