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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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Pension Delays Apology and Romance Scams
The Chief Executive of Capita Public Services has apologised for the serious delays thousands of civil servants are facing simply to get paid their pe...
Money Box Live: How to Pick a Mortgage
Mortgages are one of the most important financial products most of us ever come across, but they're also complicated. With more than 7,000 products o...
Credit Card Debt and Civil Service Pensions
Debt charity StepChange says its research suggests around 2.5mn people who have debt on a credit card have paid more in interest, fees and charges ove...
Money Box Live: Student Loan Debate
Student loans and their impact on graduates’ finances have dominated the news recently. The average student debt in England for 2024 graduates was ap...
Report Fraud and Student Loans
Billions of pounds is lost each year to fraud, be that by criminals simply stealing someone's money or by thieves tricking victims into giving them th...
Money Box Life: Working for Longer
The number of people working past retirement age is growing. New analysis of tax data found a 12% rise over the past five years. It was carried out...
Energy Ombudsman Powers and Cheques
The chair of Parliament’s Energy Select Committee has told Money Box it’s “vital” the Energy Ombudsman is given new, stronger powers as quickly as pos...
Money Box Live: Do Electric Cars Add Up?
Buying a new car last year increasingly meant going electric. Around one in four new car buyers made that choice with almost half a million electric c...
Energy Bill Battle and Restrictive Covenants
When it comes to keeping our homes warm nearly all of us rely on just a handful of big energy suppliers. And during the winter, especially with the co...
Money Box Live: Inheritance Tax
There's a topic that often appears in the Money Box inbox, inheritance tax.
It's money paid by the estate of someone once they die, as long as t...
Child Benefit and Credit Cards
More than 60% of parents who lost their child benefit because the tax office believed incorrectly they'd moved abroad, were in fact eligible for the b...
Money Box Live: Women's Finances
It's 50 years since the Sex Discrimination Act meant all women could take out mortgages and loans without needing a man to approve it.
In this p...
Making Tax Digital and Savings Rates
"A big change" - that's how HMRC has described a major transformation starting in April, which affects the way sole traders and landlords report their...
Can You Make a Creative Job Pay?
The creative industries add around £124 billion to the UK economy according to government figures, but for actors, painters, or even influencers, maki...
Mortgages, Silver Marriages and Warren Buffett
This week the Bank of England cut interest rates to the lowest level for more than two years. The decision to cut Bank Rate to 3.75% came after new fi...
Money Box Life: Blended Family Finances
Life can sometimes get very complicated and messy so can our finances, so we're doing something a bit different to our usual Money Box Live.
In...
Investment Changes and Women's Financial Rights
Sweeping changes to the way investments are recommended across the UK will start in April. This week the Financial Conduct Authority set out its plan...
Money Box Live: Impulse Spending and Debt
It’s December, a time of year when there’s pressure to say yes to every night out, buy the perfect presents and spend without really thinking. All tha...
Energy Costs for Families and Salary Sacrifice Pensions
New research suggests there are 6 million children across the UK living in fuel poverty, according to the charity National Energy Action. It defines f...
Money Box Live: Making Sense of Your Pay
How much do we really understand about our pay?
From frozen tax thresholds to salary sacrifice and minimum wage increases, a number of changes m...
Cash ISA Change and Carers Allowance
The Chancellor announced dozens of changes in the Budget that will affect the money in your pocket from wages and energy bills to savings. Many of the...
Money Box Live: Autumn Budget 2025
For months we’ve heard speculation about what the Autumn Budget might bring - now we know. The Chancellor has delivered her statement, setting out pla...
Life-changing Scams and Child Benefit
Money Box takes a special look at how victims of fraud are treated by those supposed to help them in the weeks and months afterwards. How are they hel...
Water Bills and Graduate Jobs
A record number of households across England and Wales are now getting social tariffs from water suppliers to help cut their bills. Two million househ...
Suspended child benefit and the cost of school trips
MPs on the Treasury Select Committee are seeking answers from HMRC after thousands of parents have had their child benefit stopped because they took a...
Funeral insurance cancelled and not-so-simple assessment?
Thousands of people who've paid millions of pounds into an insurance plan they thought would cover their funeral costs face getting nothing in return...
Money Box Live: Beating the squeeze?
Inflation may not be in double digits anymore, but it is still almost double the Bank of England's target. That means prices are rising twice as fast...
Infected Blood Compensation and Standing Charges
Lawyers acting for victims of the infected blood scandal have written to the Chancellor demanding urgent action to avoid families and loved ones havin...
Money Box Live: First-Time Buyers
For some it's the dream, for others it's the plan, for most it's an effort. On this programme we look at buying a first home. It's rarely easy but ple...
Unauthorised Recurring Card Payments and Overpaying Mortgages
The Chartered Trading Standards Institute is warning people to keep a close eye on their bank and credit card accounts after thousands of unsuspecting...
Money Box Live: Apprenticeships
The government wants more young people to be offered "gold standard apprenticeships". The plan was unveiled at the Labour party conference as the Prim...
Investing and Car Finance Compensation
The Chancellor wants more people to invest in shares, UK companies and infrastructure projects in a bid to boost growth in the economy. Rachel Reeves...
Money Box Live: At the London Stock Exchange
Money Box Live hits the road and heads to the heart of the City of London for this special programme on investing. We're live at the London Stock Exch...
Paying with Cash and Pension Age Rise
Cash now accounts for less than 10% of all the retail payments we make. New figures out this week UK Finance, which represents banks and others, show...
Money Box Live: Private Healthcare
More of us than ever before have access to private medical insurance. New data shared with Money Box Live shows that more than 8 million people were c...
Teachers' Pensions and Car Insurance Compensation
The National Association of Head Teachers has written to the Department for Education demanding it take action to address what it describes as the fai...
Money Box Live: Understanding Crypto
Cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, are a type of digital money that has proliferated in recent years. They are mostly unconnected to governments or centr...
Warning over Trusts and Landlord Mortgages
Top lawyers have told Money Box that people across the UK are being misled into paying thousands of pounds for products which they are told will prote...
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...