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Hello, welcome to this Moneybox podcast.

The disabled man who's lost thousands of pounds because his income was frozen for six years.

Will the rise in the national insurance threshold make it harder to qualify

for a state pension? As the number of frauds involving cryptocurrency grows, should banks ban

all transfers to crypto platforms? And a major funeral plan provider goes bust with too little

money to honour its promises. But first, inflation. One forecast this

week suggests that a £10 note may be worth little more than £9 by the end of the year,

as the price of everything we buy from electricity to food, from telephone bills to petrol, rises.

Every forecast of the economy says the prospect for inflation is getting worse, and this

week the Office for Budget Responsibility, which advises the Chancellor, predicted that prices

would rise overall more than 7%, with the annual rise peaking at nearly 9% by the winter. What's

causing it, can the Government or the Bank of England do anything to stop the worst inflation that most people have ever known?

With me as Isabel Stockton Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Isabel Stockton, the Chancellor, did mention his inflation in his speech, but just as describing where it was, not something he could do anything about.

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