A CRACKDOWN on credit card rorts should mean Australians pay less for football tickets and plane flights, the Federal Government says, as a new ban begins this week.

MEET the Joneses: permanently tanned, always on holiday, constantly posting on social media ... and more likely than not, up to their eyeballs in credit card debt.

A WOMAN who lived in a mud hut in Serbia despite inheriting almost $1m from her dead Australian husband has died — and her neighbours are suspicious of where her fortune has gone.

CREDIT card balance-transfer deals are flooding onto the market in a bid to lure in new customers who are mulling over their post-Christmas debt.

BARRING a major financial meltdown, super funds are set to deliver a positive investment return for the seventh successive year. The only problem is that financial markets could be about to tumble later this week.

CASH-strapped Aussies are resorting to using their credit cards to pay for everyday expenses and many can’t pay off their plastic bills in full each month.

AUSTRALIA’S middle class is disappearing amid a widening gap between the haves and the have-nots in an unprecedented way, new research shows.

BECAUSE you probably are, according to the latest statistics. But there’s a frustrating reason it doesn’t seem that way.

WOULD you feel comfortable leaving a tap running with water gushing down the sink? A similar “leak” is costing you thousands.

COULD you live without cash? According to Westpac, Australia will be totally cash-free by 2022. We gave it a go, and it wasn’t great.

DON’T get used to cheap strawberries. We could be facing a fruit shortage due to a “disastrous” move by the government.

EVER found yourself on a flight suddenly struggling to hold back the waterworks during the movie even if you’ve seen it a hundred times before? You’re not alone.

AUSTRALIANS are used to being fleeced from the minute they leave the house. This receipt shows just how much we cop.

PEOPLE power continues to drive great Big Switch deals for everything from groceries to car insurance. Here’s the next round of offers.

CAN a company that’s been around for less than five years and has governments all over the world threatening to shut it down, be worth more than Kraft and Hertz?