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• P&O's Price Promise: Does it deliver?

  Sat, 15 Jun 13

  Duration:
  25 mins
  
  Available:
  26 days remaining

  The flat-rate pension: why married women may lose out; and why NS&I is cutting rates.

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• MoneyBoxLive: Power of Attorney: 12 June 13

  Wed, 12 Jun 13

  Duration:
  28 mins
  
  Available:
  24 days remaining

  Paul Lewis and guests answered your questions about Power of Attorney.

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• Personal Independence Payments

  Sat, 8 Jun 13

  Duration:
  24 mins
  
  Available:
  19 days remaining

  Direct debit charges scrapped, the ins and outs of the new PIP disability benefit, the true impact of putting your home into a trust and is anyone there? Listeners ask why it is taking so long for the Financial Ombudsman Service to look at cases.

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• Payday loans: 05 June 13

  Wed, 5 Jun 13

  Duration:
  28 mins
  
  Available:
  17 days remaining

  Paul Lewis and guests answered your questions about payday loans.

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• Fake financial advisors: 01 June 2013

  Sat, 1 Jun 13

  Duration:
  25 mins
  
  Available:
  12 days remaining

  Mortgage refusal mix-up: As triplets they share the same date of birth, the same name, and, until recently, they all shared the same address. But when Kelly, the youngest, sent for her credit record, she got a shock. Neil Munroe of the credit rating agency Equifax offers advice on managing your credit file. Fake financial advisors:Crooks trying to sell people shares are now cloning the identity of registered financial advisers to give themselves respectability. One top adviser tells us he had to spend thousands of pounds changing his firm's name and website after it was copied flawlessly by crooks who even answered the phone in his name! And a victim of the scam tells us how he was reeled in with small investments. We hear how investors can protect themselves from the fake financial advisors. Discount vouchers: Legitimate websites of major and well-known online retailers are being used to lure people into joining a discount club which can cost them hundreds of pounds.

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• MoneyBoxLive: Holidays: 29 May 13

  Wed, 29 May 13

  Duration:
  29 mins
  
  Available:
  10 days remaining

  Vincent Duggleby and guests answered your questions about holidays.

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• Dodgy direct debits: 25 May 2013

  Sat, 25 May 13

  Duration:
  25 mins
  
  Available:
  5 days remaining

  DIRECT DEBITS : Hundreds of people who agreed to pay a computer maintenance contract in the past but then cancelled it have had their direct debits restarted without their permission. BANK OF IRELAND: Lawyers representing Bank of Ireland customers are asking the Financial Conduct Authority to stop the Bank trebling the monthly mortgage payments for 13,000 customers. IT COSTS HOW MUCH: A new online calculator shows the true cost of investing. One fund claims a 1% upfront charge and a 1.25% annual management charge. But the calculator shows the total cost of investing as 2.28% a year. We speak to the co-founder Gina Miller and Lawrence Gosling, Editor of Investment Week. STILL NOT EQUAL: The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill passed overwhelmingly by the House of Commons this week will maintain the one financial discrimination between same sex and opposite sex couples. We speak to one Money Box listener and the MP Mike Freer.

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• MoneyBoxLive: Equity Release: 22 May 13

  Wed, 22 May 13

  Duration:
  29 mins
  
  Available:
  3 days remaining

  Vincent Duggleby and guests answered your questions about equity release.

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