Podcast Episodes

Money Box Live: Working Over 50

The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is expected to introduce measures in his March Budget to encourage people who have retired early to return to work in-or…

3 years, 6 months ago

Over 50s Workers and Faulty Prepayment Meters

The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is expected to use his Budget on March 15th to introduce measures to to encourage people over 50 to return to work. Sin…

3 years, 7 months ago

Money Box Live: Your Pensions and Investments

With the end of the tax year fast approaching, people are looking at their finances and investments. But in a cost of living crisis with unstable ma…

3 years, 7 months ago

Lasting Power of Attorney delays and Mortgages

The Office of the Public Guardian has told Money Box it apologises to its customers for the distress caused by delays in dealing with applications fo…

3 years, 7 months ago

Money Box Live: Are you worried about debt?

The problem of debt is never too far from the headlines at the moment. This week a group of charities - Citizens Advice, Step Change and Christians A…

3 years, 7 months ago

Cost of Living Crisis: Working People

The charity Citizens Advice says it's seen a sharp rise in the number of working people accessing crisis support in the past few years. In 2022, of t…

3 years, 7 months ago

Money Box Live: The Art of a Complaint

In the UK, millions of people go without the refunds, the replacements and resolutions they're entitled to - because they don’t know how to complain.…

3 years, 7 months ago

Energy complaints rise to record levels

Paul Lewis hears how complaints to the Energy Ombudsman reached a record high last year. Plus, the child benefit trap that is catching parents unawar…

3 years, 7 months ago

Money Box Live: Dementia and Money

It’s estimated that more than 900,000 people in the UK have dementia but that’s a number that's on the rise.

It’s a diagnosis that raises a lot of qu…

3 years, 7 months ago

Bereavement Support and Energy Vouchers

For the first time unmarried parents will be entitled to bereavement benefits after a change in law was passed this week. Until now these benefits ha…

3 years, 8 months ago