Money Box Podcast
1) TikTok - time for change?
TikTok has been downloaded over 1.6 billion times and most of its users are young. They share videos and stream their activities live. The site allows people who have over 1000 followers to be given p...Show More
2) 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 study them after concerns that today's workers will ...Show More
3) 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 Live we've been digging into the inbox to answer ...Show More
4) 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 the State Pension, the gap has closed considerably for p...Show More
5) 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 down. The data has been shared with this programme...Show More
6) 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 in the three months to April, up from 4.5 per cent...Show More
7) 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 this week in a major report on the future of pensions...Show More
8) 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 bars.There are around 98,000 people serving prison...Show More
9) 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 Discount scheme which will almost double the number ge...Show More
10) 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 the pension specialist Royal London also suggests single...Show More