Unlike a stolen credit card, an unauthorized or wrongly billed amount is not limited to a $50 liability. As a matter of fact unless you take steps and dispute a credit card charge, the credit card company assumes that you accept the charges and are willing to pay the charges.
With the new school term rapidly approaching, parents who choose to send their children to private education could well be set to find pressure on their finances increasing due to the rising cost of tuition fees, a new study has suggested.
The implementation of personal finance classes in secondary schools could be the key to improving the nation's attitudes to debt, an industry expert has suggested.
As children across the country get ready for the beginning of the new term, millions of adults are also "going back to school" when it comes to organising their finances, new figures indicate.
Those Britons who are planning to start a family, or already have children, need to budget their finances as otherwise they risk developing debt problems, it has been suggested.