Labour leader Ed Miliband mocked the chancellor's failure to make any reference to Britain's loss of its Triple A rating with credit agencies during his hour long budget speech.

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Aetna and the Financial Planning Association have teamed up on this site to offer some excellent tools to reference while you make your open enrollment choices, including a glossary of benefits terms (aka, dummy guide) and calculators for health and baby-related expenses.

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This is only one of many non-financial reference points used to make a tough read more accessible.

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This implies that consumer choice will make a difference, but of course we do not get to choose which credit reference agencies hold our personal data.

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