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How much does divorce cost in the UK?
Your guide to the Sandwich generation
What’s a credit score and how to improve it
Managing your money more carefully in later life
Want to retire but havent paid off your mortgage?
What to do if you havent saved enough for retirement
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Coping with redundancy at fifty
Boost your pension pot
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Retired and in debt
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It’s time to talk about mental health
19 random acts of kindness
Happy retirement
How tech would have ruined movies
What type of Mum are you?
What Type of Grandparent Are You?
Coping with loneliness in later life
Coronavirus and life after 50
How life has changed in the past 100 years
UK then and now
You’re never too old to be president

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What do you say when someone dies
Celebrity gravesites map
Getting your affairs in order
How funerals have changed over the years
How to personalise a funeral
Celebrating the anniversary of a death
Alternative sympathy gift ideas to funeral flowers
15 weird and wonderful funeral requests
How to manage online accounts after death
Sympathy card and funeral flower messages
What happens if you die without a Will
Our guide to making a Will
Alternative funerals
What to wear to a funeral
Bereavement poems and poems for funerals
5 top tips to make a funeral arrangements more colourful
Popular funeral flowers and arrangements
A simple guide to popular funeral hymns
What is a lasting power of attorney?

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2019

A comfortable retirement on the house
SunLife research reveals widowers and widows go on more dates than anyone else!

2018

Funeral costs spiral to £4,271 following annual rise of 4.7%…but you can hold a funeral for less than HALF the price

2017

Over 50s go cash-free, with use of cash more than halving in last two years
Grandparents will spend £1.4billion on grandkids this Christmas
Double award win for SunLife Welcome to Life After 50 ad
Milk float hearses, banana skin coffins and guests in wellies – the trend for less formal, more personal funerals
Over 50s regret retiring
Age of discrimination: Millions of over 50s have lost out on a job because of their age
SunLife launches first ever above-the-line brand campaign
50 things to do before you are 50
A fifth of over 55s have more than £100k in savings

2016

Over 50s let it all hang out this Christmas
Stay-at-home mums do almost £30k of unpaid work a year yet two thirds do not have life insurance
Temperatures are set to drop to -8C today, is your home ready for the big freeze
Funeral costs soar by 10 times the increase in the cost of living in a year – forcing families to cut corners on their loved ones’ send off
Do your loved ones know your funeral wishes?
Over a third of grandparents don’t trust children to pass on inheritance to grandkids

2015

A billion extra cards this Christmas
SunLife launches new straightfordable home insurance
UK households spend £37bn going on holiday every year
Public overestimate price of life insurance by almost 400%
Average life cover payout £31,500 short of average outstanding mortgage
Public wants Chancellor to make NHS top spending priority (while cutting £75bn from welfare and pensions)