Protecting your identity is very important. Yesterday one of my young sisters discovered that somebody living on the other side of the country had stolen her identity and was claiming every single social security benefit that they could think of. Housing benefit, child benefit, income support benefit, they claimed it ...
In your adult life there will be a time when you will find you may have to apply for some kind of financial service. This doesn’t necessarily always mean a loan; it could be a hire purchase agreement, or something similar. Something where they give you ‘something’ and you then ...