Podcast Episodes

Money Box Live: The Childcare Challenge

The price of nursery can be more than a mortgage. In fact, to send a two-year-old to nursery for 50 hours a week, allowing you to work full time, can…

2 years, 3 months ago

National Insurance Cut and Fraud Refunds

National Insurance will be cut for millions workers from today. It'll be cut from 12% to 10% - the lowest main rate for more than twenty years. The …

2 years, 3 months ago

Money Box Live: Financial Resolutions

It can feel like new year, new you, with so much potential for change and improvement, but then reality can kick in.

Around 1 in 3 of us will have m…

2 years, 3 months ago

Money Box Live: Survival Guide

Are you putting down the mince pies and opening your bank statements? Well, you're in the right place as we're dedicating some time to the kinds of …

2 years, 3 months ago

Scottish Budget, Core Maths and Christmas Winners

Higher earners in Scotland are to pay more income tax from April. That was one of the headlines from the Scottish government in its budget on Tuesday…

2 years, 3 months ago

Money Box Live: The Rising Cost of Rent

A typical rental property gets 25 enquires from people who want to view it, according to the property listings site Rightmove. That high demand also…

2 years, 3 months ago

Inflation, Gift Cards and Energy Deals

The Office for National Statistics has published the first of a new quarterly set of figures designed to reflect how inflation is experienced by hous…

2 years, 3 months ago

Money Box Live: Christmas Spending and Scams

This week we're tackling the cost of the festive season and looking at how to avoid scams.

The cost of Christmas is up almost a quarter over the last…

2 years, 4 months ago

Teenage Scam Ads and Mortgage Overpayments

Teenagers are being bombarded on social media with promotions for financial products they might not understand and that are usually too risky or dang…

2 years, 4 months ago

Money Box Live: Banking

This is a transformative time for banking. The last decade has seen an incredibly fast-paced increase in the use of technology and also a rapid decr…

2 years, 4 months ago