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...
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20 of 737 episodesChair 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...
Money Box Life: Teenagers talk money
Teenage years are formative in many different ways – and being able to handle finances is one of them. In this programme - one of our specia...
NS&I Delays and Youth Unemployment
Some bereaved listeners whose relatives had money put away with National Savings and Investments are facing weeks and months of delay in get...
Renters and Landlords: Your Questions Answered
A huge amount is about to change for anyone who rents their home or who owns a rental property in England. The Renters' Rights Act comes int...
Renters Rights, Energy Fixing and the £5k Typo
In just a few days time the biggest shake up to renters rights in a generation will come into force in England. It will mean no more than on...
Money Box Live: Your Summer Holidays
Are you worried about whether the global disruption could affect your global travel plans? Whether you've booked a foreign trip, are plannin...
Energy Bill Fear and Council Tax Arrears
Are we at the start of a deepening cost of living crisis as nearly half of all adults fear they might not be able afford their energy bills?...
Money Box Live: How to Handle Global Shocks
The conflict in Iran has very grave human costs for the Middle East. But it also has economic costs and they are being felt around the world...
Teacher's Pension Delays and Best Savings Rates
The National Union of Headteachers says the government "must step in" to help teachers in England and Wales who have retired but are facing...