Money Box Live: Saving for Your Future Self
There can be a lot of financial pressures when you're first starting out in your career, paying the rent, saving for a home and clearing stu...
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20 of 752 episodesThe Future of Pensions and Bereavement "Injustice"
Major reforms are needed in workplace pensions to increase the amount people are saving for their retirement, but it will take the next 20 y...
Money Box Live: Rising Water Bills
More than 320,000 households in England and Wales complained to their water supplier last year. A rise of 56% on the year before, according...
Money Box Life: Lending to Loved Ones
When someone you love needs financial help, lending them money can seem like the easiest way to support them. And when you're the one facing...
Numeracy Review and Petrol Prices
A new survey has suggested nearly a third of people in the UK believe they lost money last year because of their poor maths skills. One esti...
Money Box Live: Back to School
Children in England, Wales and Northern Ireland return to school this week, with Scottish children already well into the first term of the y...
New Bailiff Rule and 10p Coins
Tougher regulation about how bailiffs can operate in England and Wales have been announced by the government. The changes will make it manda...
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...
New 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....