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The latest news from the world of personal finance plus advice for those trying to make the most of their money.
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Money Box Live: Navigating a Terminal Illness
This week on Money Box Live we're looking at a topic that's very difficult but very important. What happens to your finances when the worst happens?...
Mortgage Charter and Unclaimed Benefits
New figures reveal that more than a quarter of a million homeowners have temporarily reduced their mortgages payments, or extended their mortgage term...
Money Box Live: The Cost of University
About a quarter of a million 18-year-olds in the UK secured a university place this summer and are now preparing to head off to their chosen instituti...
Inheritance Planning and State Pension Underpayments
We look at changes which the Government has announced – and the speculation around those it hasn’t. Pension inheritance rules will change in 2027. It...
Money Box Live: Rising rents troubling tenants
Being a tenant can be pricey — and it’s only getting pricier.
Private rents rose by almost six per cent in the year to July, and while the pace...
Firefighter Wins and Winter Fuel Scams
Hundreds of former retained firefighters have come forward to claim millions of pounds in missing pension payments after Money Box covered the story e...
Money Box Live: What You Wish You'd Known
Dragons' Den investor and entrepreneur Deborah Meaden joins Felicity Hannah to look at the money wisdom and advice you wish you'd known when you were...
Pensions, On-Call Firefighters, Childcare
When will you retire? And will you have enough money to live comfortably? Big questions and this week the government announced two major reviews to st...
Money Box Live: How to Improve Your Credit Score
Every adult has a credit score but you've been telling us the factors affecting it can be mystifying and frustrating. So in this edition of Money Box...
Money Box Live: Why Are Women Retiring with Less?
For every £1 a man has in his private pension pot a woman has just 42p according to research from pension company Royal London.
When it comes to...
Water Meters and Cash ISAs
Money Box can exclusively reveal there has been a sharp rise in the number of people applying to have water meters fitted to try to bring their bills...
Mansion House and Council Tax for Terminally Ill
It was a momentous day on Tuesday as the government and regulators announced major changes in the way investments will be sold. What's been proposed...
Money Box Live: Losing Your Job
Unemployment recently rose to its highest level in almost four years. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the rate went up to 4.6 per cent...
Future of Pensions and Heat Networks
Reform of the state pension, auto-enrolment into company pensions and consolidation of small pensions spread across several providers are proposed thi...
Money Box Live: Behind Bars
In this special programme Money Box Live has been given exclusive access to a centre working with former prisoners to find out how money works behind...
Warm Home Discount and Teachers' Pension
Six million people will have £150 knocked off one winter electricity bill this winter. The Government has announced an expansion of the Warm Home Disc...
Money Box Live: Does Being Single Cost You More?
More people are living alone, in fact 3 in 10 households are made up of single adults, according to the latest government figures.
Research from...
Child Trust Funds and the Cost of Insurance
Campaigners say more needs to be done to help the parents and carers of tens of thousands of disabled young adults access their own money held in Gove...
Money Box Live: AI and Your Money
Three quarters of financial firms are already using Artificial Intelligence, according to the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority, wit...
Bailiffs and Premium Bonds
We'll discuss proposals to reform the bailiff industry, hearing from a man whose small parking fine ballooned into a debt of more than £400 once baili...
Water Bills and How to Save?
New research, seen exclusively by Money Box, suggests a third of households in England and Wales are trying to cut the amount of water they use to hel...
Avoiding Scams and Changes to Wills
Hundreds of millions of pounds was stolen from people in 2024 by thieves who tricked them, manipulated them, and then drained their bank accounts. Th...
'Making Tax Digital' and Bank Charges
Hundreds and thousands of sole traders and landlords are facing a significant change in how they file their tax returns. In less than a year 800,000 p...
Fraud Crackdown and Is Cash King?
The fight against what is called push payment fraud - when victims are groomed and manipulated into transferring money to criminals - took a huge step...
Money Box Live: The 'Sadmin' of Bereavement
Earlier this spring the Financial Conduct Authority warned that some banks and firms lack empathy when dealing with bereaved customers and called for...
Cancer Costs and Mortgage Deals
Around 1 in 2 people living in the UK will be diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime according to Cancer Research UK. That stark statistic is a r...
Money Box Live: Move or Improve?
If your home isn't working for you, should you pack up and move or get the builders in and improve?
Moving is expensive, aside from the price of...
Wealth Divide and Domestic Abuse
People over the age of 60 hold nearly £3 trillion of wealth in the value of their homes, almost all of it mortgage free. That is more than half of all...
Pensions Minister and Poor Bereavement Service
In an exclusive interview with this programme the Pensions Minister has talked about the government's plans to reform the UK's pension system. Torsten...
Money Box Live: School Wraparound Care
Parents typically pay an average of more than £80 per week for a childminder and £66 per week for after-school club, to cover the hours they're workin...
Investing in Gold and Accessing Child Trust Funds
Money Box investigates fees being charged of teenagers who are struggling to access their child trust funds. We speak to an 18 year old who agreed to...
Money Box Live: Social Housing
New analysis shows that some parts of England have waiting lists for social housing that exceed 100 years. Recently the government pledged £2 billion...
Tariffs, Pensions and Credit Card Debt
The stock markets have been on somewhat of a roller coaster since US president Trump announced global trade tariffs. Listeners emailed Money Box to t...
Money Box Live: Will Tariffs Affect your Finances?
US Trade tariffs, stock market ups and downs, economic uncertainty. What do they all mean for your money?
Since last Wednesday, when Donald Trum...
Investments and Carers Allowance
Stock markets around the world have plunged in reaction to the import tariffs imposed by President Trump and then the retaliation of China which respo...
April Bills and Child Benefit
The cost of just about everything we need to run a home will be more expensive for millions of households from Tuesday. Switching on the lights, turni...
Money Box Live: Spring Statement
As the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, presents her Spring Statement, Money Box Live sifts through the details about what it all means for your personal fi...
Back Bills and Benefits
We report from Parliament as the Minister for Energy Consumers and the regulator Ofgem face questions from MPs about the banned process of back-billin...
Funeral Plan Compensation and Leasehold Reform
There will be no compensation for more than 46,000 people who lost thousands of pounds each when the funeral plan firm Safe Hands went bust 3 years ag...
ISAs Future and Later Life Mortgages
Over the past few weeks there's been speculation over the future of ISAs - Individual Savings Accounts. At the moment each saver can deposit up to £20...