Bad dogs and phone companies - This is Money Show
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This is Money
4.4 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2015
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Lloyds Bank, the bank that built its recent reputation on a massive mis-selling scandal, maybe at it again with the launch of a hard sales drive called Labrador.
Meanwhile, Sky is hiking its customers’ line rental fees again.
This is Money editor Simon Lambert and consumer affairs editor Lee Boyce join Share Radio's Georgie Frost to look at this and more of the week's money news.
Also in the conversation are:
The true state of our finances
Help on understanding pensions
How to top up your pension if you think you might live until you're 100
Interest rates? Will they ever go up? Yes, they surely will. But when?
How to lose £1,000s with a sort code
A new car app for people with poor memory
A new buy-to-let warning
And the health benefits of living without joyless and sentimental tat
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Hosts: Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Helen Crane
Producer: Georgie Frost
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| 0:00.0 | A very warm welcome to This is Money and Share Radio podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Georgie Pross and you can catch me every weekday from 9 until 1 on Digital in London online at shareadio.co.com. |
| 0:18.9 | And if you've a smartphone or a tablet through the ShareRadio mobile app, |
| 0:22.6 | in the studio with me today for our weekly catch-up, |
| 0:25.6 | editor Simon Lambert joined by Consumer Affairs Editor Lee Boyce. |
| 0:29.6 | And coming out, we've had a wealth of economic data out recently |
| 0:32.6 | that some suggest show we the consumer |
| 0:34.6 | are in something of a financial sweet spot at the moment. Rising wages, falling prices, that's a real boost for family incomes. |
| 0:42.3 | Of course we've got to stay vigilant, make sure we don't have damaging deflation. |
| 0:46.3 | Or how will the figures impact on interest rates and what is the true state of our finances? |
| 0:51.3 | Simon will wade through all the details. |
| 0:53.3 | Also today, six months |
| 0:55.4 | after the new pension freedoms came in, it seems we're still scratching our heads over |
| 0:59.1 | some of the finer details. So this is money. Have produced a handy guide answering your |
| 1:03.8 | FAQs. We reveal the top ones. And just as well as this week, we've something new in the |
| 1:09.0 | world of pensions to get our heads around. A government top-up scheme now makes it possible for millions to boost our retirement incomes. |
| 1:16.0 | If you're 65, you've got to live for 17 years to sort of get into profit on this. |
| 1:22.9 | But it gives you that extra income guaranteed until you die. |
| 1:25.5 | And, of course, you might live to 100. |
| 1:26.9 | Now, Lee has been investigating whether bad banking is creeping back in as criticism mounts for sales tactics used by Lloyds. |
| 1:34.3 | Yes, the very same Lloyds that scrap the old-fashioned targets at the start of the year after all those mis-selling scandals. |
| 1:41.3 | Or from mis-selling to mistakes, how one firm was left out of pocket, |
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