Money Box Live: Armed Forces Finances
In this special edition of Money Box Live, presenter Felicity Hannah has been out to Weeton Barracks in Preston to see how soldiers juggle t...
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20 of 745 episodesNew Chancellor, New Plans? and Inheritance Gifts
This week has seen a new Prime Minister and a new Chancellor of the Exchequer. As soon as John Healey was appointed the announcements began....
Money Box Live: House Sale Nightmares
Major reforms are planned to shake up house selling in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The government hopes the plans could end gazunde...
State Pension Age Rise, Gazundering and Air-Con
Urgent action is needed to help people in their sixties on low incomes who face a delay of up to a year before they can claim their State Pe...
Money Box Live: Buy Now, Pay Later Shake-Up
New regulations begin today (Wednesday July 15th) for shoppers using Buy Now Pay Later. Consumers using services like Klarna and Clearpay wi...
Making Tax Digital Deadline and Cheques
A deadline approaches for 860,000 self-employed people and landlords who must start reporting their income and expenses in a new way. It is...
Money Box Live: Would you let AI manage your money?
We look at whether artificial intelligence is a help, or a hazard when it comes to helping you with your personal finances. One in five adul...
Child Trust Fund "Injustice" and Pension Opt-Outs
Parliament was asked this week to help tens of thousands of young adults get access to their own money. It is sitting in the state-backed Ch...
Buying a flat: stepping stone or millstone?
Buying a flat used to be a stepping stone to owning a house – but has this all changed? Research is telling us that the gap in price between...
Chair of the Banking Review and Winter Fuel Payments
More than 15,000 people have responded to a Government review into access to banking services in just three weeks since it opened. The revie...
Money Box Live: The Future of Banking
We’ve seen a big fall in the number of bank branches over the last decade. Around 6,700 bank and building society branches have closed since...
Pension delays and fraud figures
Capita chiefs promised MPs on the Public Accounts Committee it would fix long-running problems with its administration of one of the biggest...
Renting in Retirement and Wildlife Bank Notes
Six million people who expect to be paying housing costs once they've stopped working say they don't know how they'll be able to afford it....
AI scams, cohabiting and student loans
Scammers are using increasingly convincing AI generated videos to steal people's money. We hear from a victim who had £165,000 stolen and as...
Civil Service Pension Debacle and Cheaper Energy?
The PCS union is calling for Capita to lose its contract to administer the Civil Service Pensions scheme six months after it took over. It f...
Carers' Pensions and Face-to-Face Banking
Newly released research seen exclusively by this programme suggests a quarter of the UK's nearly 6 million carers have paused or stopped pay...
Money Box Live: Invest or Save?
If you’re fortunate enough to have set some money aside for a rainy day the Government wants you to invest more rather than keep it all in c...
Lack of Wills and "Savvy Squirrel"
Millions of adults across the UK, have not told their families what they want to happen to their money and property when they die. STEP, the...
How to Live Long and Prosper
We may be living longer, but are our finances in the best of health? On today’s Money Box Live we take a stroll through the decades and exam...
Claims management inquiry and bank account switching
Since lenders were ordered to repay billions to consumers who signed up to unfair car finance deals, millions of people have been sent adver...