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Dennis Hall is on the panel answering questions following the 2008 Budget announcement.

You can read the questions and Dennis’ answers on the AOL Money website.

A Wealth Check in the Independent features Dennis Hall providing advice to Gina who wants ‘to be debt-free by the time I turn 40′.

Gina Coldrick, 31, from Warrington says that her biggest financial goal is to be debt-free by the time she turns 40. But with a young daughter to support, and a restrictive salary, she is struggling to break even. “I am only making enough to cover bills,” she says. “I have found myself eating into my savings and using my credit card for extras.”

You can read the rest o f the article on the their website.

Dennis Hall gives advice to a teacher planning for retirement and hoping to maintain his family’s lifestyle in retirement.

WITH a large house, two salaries, two cars and the funds for £4,000 trips each summer, the King family is not used to financial worries. But their budget will tighten considerably next January, when husband Alan retires from teaching after 33 years.

The 59-year-old, who lives in Worthing, West Sussex, with his wife, Sue, 43, and sons Jack, 15, and Sean, 6, is keen to ensure that savings and investments of more than £60,000 are best placed to support their lifestyle. “I have no idea where to start,” he says.

On retirement, Alan will forfeit a salary of £41,000 for a teacher’s pension of £16,800, plus a £50,000 lump sum. Sue, like Alan, teaches geography at the local school, on a salary of £34,000 and will continue until retirement in 2015.

You can read Dennis’ advice to Alan on planning for retirement on The Times website.

Dennis Hall contributed to an article in The Times advising a young couple on their family finances.

Life looks pretty good for Jessica Whittaker and her partner, James. Jessica, 34, a voiceover artist, and James, 35, a documentary film-maker, have a combined income of about £150,000. They live in an attractive three-bedroom house in Putney, southwest London, and are proud parents of nine-month-old Bella.

Read the rest of this article on The Times website.

Dennis Hall advises an agricultural researcher as part of a financial makeover in The Times.

SARAH COOK enjoys an attractive rural lifestyle. She lives in a £250,000 three-bedroom house in a Cambridgeshire village with her 11-year-old son and works in agricultural research. However, two financial concerns are encroaching on this idyll.

The main worry is that Sarah has no way of paying off all the capital on the interest-only part of her mortgage. “I don’t know whether I should increase my monthly payments or use some of my savings to reduce the deficit,” she says.

Read the rest of this article on The Times website.