Money Box

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• Money Box Life: Lending to Loved Ones

  October 7, 2026 · 28 min

  When someone you love needs financial help, lending them money can seem like the easiest way to support them. And when you're the one facing financial difficulties, turning to someone close to you for a loan can feel like the most natural…

• Numeracy Review and Petrol Prices

  October 3, 2026 · 25 min

  A new survey has suggested nearly a third of people in the UK believe they lost money last year because of their poor maths skills. One estimate puts the cost of innumeracy at £25 billion per year. To try and tackle this the government has…

• Money Box Live: Back to School

  September 30, 2026 · 28 min

  Children in England, Wales and Northern Ireland return to school this week, with Scottish children already well into the first term of the year. Many parents and carers will have the cost of sending their children to school in mind this…

• New Bailiff Rule and 10p Coins

  September 26, 2026 · 25 min

  Tougher regulation about how bailiffs can operate in England and Wales have been announced by the government. The changes will make it mandatory for every bailiff to sign up to a code of practice. The idea is to drive up standards and stop…

• Money Box Live: Armed Forces Finances

  August 26, 2026 · 29 min

  In this special edition of Money Box Live, presenter Felicity Hannah has been out to Weeton Barracks in Preston to see how soldiers juggle their finances whilst leading an often unpredictable military life. We look at the benefits of life…

• New Chancellor, New Plans? and Inheritance Gifts

  August 22, 2026 · 25 min

  This week has seen a new Prime Minister and a new Chancellor of the Exchequer. As soon as John Healey was appointed the announcements began. First came the announcement to cut VAT on household energy bills from October, next a plan to cap…

• Money Box Live: House Sale Nightmares

  August 19, 2026 · 28 min

  Major reforms are planned to shake up house selling in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The government hopes the plans could end gazundering and gazumping and make buying and selling homes faster, cheaper and less likely to fall…

• State Pension Age Rise, Gazundering and Air-Con

  August 15, 2026 · 24 min

  Urgent action is needed to help people in their sixties on low incomes who face a delay of up to a year before they can claim their State Pension. That is the main recommendation of a new report from the Work and Pensions Committee…