Podcast Episodes

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 called Ma…

2 months, 1 week ago

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 adults in the …

2 months, 1 week ago

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 Child Trust…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

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 flats and…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

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 review comes a…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

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 the begi…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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 pension …

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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. That's a…

3 months ago

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 ask an expe…

3 months, 1 week ago

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 follows p…

3 months, 2 weeks ago