Help for people in mortgage arrears and deferring your state pension.

Money Box

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4.2 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

As the number of homeowners behind on their mortgage jumps we look at a scheme in Wales trying to help people stay in their homes.

Also on the programme we speak to experts who weigh up the pros and cons of deferring your state pension and hear about the complications one woman had in getting the money she was owed.

We'll tell you if you're eligible for the winter fuel payment and, as the cost of living continues to bite, we visit a baby bank in Perth and Kinross to meet the volunteers who run it to speak to them about the increasing demand for help in providing everything from nappies to milk powder to wipes and toys.

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:07.0	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.0	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:14.0	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for Lucan.
0:21.6	It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime.
0:25.6	I'm Alex Fondunzelman.
0:26.6	This is The Lucan Obsession.
0:28.6	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:30.6	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:35.6	Hello, welcome to this Moneybox podcast.
0:39.3	More than 11 million people, age 66 or more,
0:42.3	will be getting a tax-free winter fuel payment of five or
0:45.3	600 pounds per household before Christmas.
0:49.3	Parents who are struggling to feed and clothe their newborns
0:52.3	can now get help from a baby bank in many parts of
0:55.2	the UK, we visit one of them. And if you work past pension age, should you boost your state
1:00.9	pension by deferring your claim until you need it? But first, the number of homeowners in
1:07.1	mortgage arrears reached almost 90,000 this summer that's up by nearly a fifth on a year earlier.
1:13.6	Those figures for the three months, July to September, were released by UK finance this week.
1:18.7	At the same time, a new scheme to help struggling homeowners in Wales was launched by the Welsh government.
1:25.0	Called Help to Stay, a £40 million fund will provide loans to people
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