Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMoney Box Live: The Autumn Budget 2017
What are the government's plans for tax and spending and how will they affect your personal finances? As the Chancellor delivers his second budget of…
8 years, 5 months ago
Parents fear online problems will cost them childcare places
Parents who use two government childcare schemes tell Money Box about a problem they fear is putting their children at risk of losing their nursery p…
8 years, 5 months ago
Money Box Live: New technology and banking
New technology is transforming the way we handle our finances. Are you someone who uses mobile apps to keep track of how you spend your money or does…
8 years, 5 months ago
Money Box Live: Rent Controls
Rent controls are common across Europe - but do they work? And could they work in the UK? It's a popular idea with voters but detractors say it could…
8 years, 6 months ago
Young driver foxed by the box
Black Box technology is regularly touted as a way of reducing car insurance premiums. If the box shows your driving is safe then you qualify for refu…
8 years, 6 months ago
Money Box Live: Tax then and now
What was troubling the tax man back in 1977 when Money Box first broadcast? Chairman of the Board of the Inland Revenue, Sir William Pile took the ho…
8 years, 7 months ago
Forty years of Money Box
In October 1977 Money Box made its first appearance on Radio 4. Hear presenters Louise Botting and Peter Hobday cover the big personal finance issues…
8 years, 7 months ago
Beware student loan overpayments
More than 90,000 graduates were refunded hundreds of pounds last year after HMRC took payments for their student loan even though they had paid it of…
8 years, 8 months ago
The Retreat of Employers
For many people, the workplace pension has been the crux of a decent income in retirement - a guaranteed sum paid for the whole of your non-working l…
8 years, 8 months ago
Will the State Pay for Our Retirement?
The current State Pension system - guarantees anyone with requisite NI contributions a pension of £150ish a week (in real terms. It is protected by t…
8 years, 9 months ago