Money Box Episodes Episode guide
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Money Box Live: The Listeners' Manifesto
Louise Cooper and a panel of guests discuss the listeners' personal finance manifesto.
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Why is Joan trapped in her home?
Why can't property owners whose homes have risen sharply in value afford to downsize?
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Money Box Live: Are leaseholds fit for purpose?
Louise Cooper and a panel of experts answer calls on house and flat leaseholds.
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The Care Fee Trap
Is there a way to protect your assets from being used to pay care fees?
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Money Box Live: Care Home Costs for Dad
Paying for a care home for Dad, we hear the very personal story of listener Susannah.
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Personal debt, Making tax digital, Bereavement support payments, Probate fees
More personal debt, more tax returns, less bereavement support and changing probate fees.
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Money Box Live: Divorce, separation and personal finance
Financial phone-in. What financial issues surface when a relationship ends?
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Living wage rise, Santander fraud and opening up the water supply market
Competition in water supply, the living wage rise, and Santander fraud security.
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Money Box Live: The Cost of Buying a Car
Louise Cooper looks at the finances of buying a car.
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The reality of financial exclusion
Financial exclusion, state pension age review and the Lifetime ISA.
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Money Box Live: Death Taxes
Are death taxes the best way to fund social care?
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Backlog builds ahead of probate changes
Changes to probate see a backlog building due to a massive fee hike from May.
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Money Box Live: Finances behind bars
Financial phone-in. How do the personal finances of being in prison work?
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National insurance and self-employment
A national insurance increase for the self-employed and a test for smart meters.
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Money Box Live: Spring Budget 2017
Paul Lewis and guests decipher what the Budget might mean for you.
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Pubs clubs and workplace pensions
Workplace pensions, tax overpayers told to stop and bank branch staff tackle fraud.
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Money Box Live: Business rates - time for reform?
The government is coming under growing pressure to overhaul business rates.
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Sanction busting
Early warning demand before cutting benefits, not-so-free childcare and the new pound coin
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Money Box Live: Disability and self-employment
Does self-employment offer a good option for people with disabilities?
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HSBC closes church account
HSBC shuts church's account, Co-op Bank sale and defrauded family respond to their critics
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Money Box Live - Changes to benefits
Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on changes to benefits expected in April.
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Landmark moment for cohabiting couples?
Cohabitee discrimination, prepay energy price cap, lack of protection for fraud victims?
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Money Box Live: Robo-advice
Could a machine give better financial advice than a human?
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Thousands face current accounts shut down
Current accounts cease for thousands, pension auto enrollment and npower price rise.
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Money Box Live: The End of the Tax Return
Making Tax Digital - transforming our tax system, but will it work for you?
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Tax simplification. It's complicated
Tax, cash machine costs, life insurance commission and National Insurance credits.
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Money Box Live: Downsizing
Should downsizing be incentivised? Louise Cooper and panel discuss.
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Southern Comfort
A landmark season ticket refund, latest fraud stats, an end to 50/50 divorce settlements?
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Money Box Live: Winter Finances
Relieving the extra financial pressure of the winter months.
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Can't pay, won't pay, will pay
A fraud victim is refunded by the bank that the scammers moved his cash to.