Money Box Live: Learning Disability and Neurodiversity
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Trying to understand interest rates, credit card changes and mortgage deals is an effort for most of us, so how do you manage if you have a learning disability?
Dan Pepper, a former Paralympian joins presenter, Ruth Alexander, to talk about how he manages his money, and what challenges he faces.
We'll also be talking about how ADHD and other neuro differences can affect your personal finances.
On hand to answer listener questions: Tony Lloyd, CEO of the ADHD Foundation, The Neurodiversity Charity, and Phillipa Gould, Financial Advocacy Manager at Dosh, a not-for-profit organisation.
Presenter: Ruth Alexander Producer: Amber Mehmood Editor: Jess Quayle
(First broadcast 3pm Wednesday 12th April, 2023)
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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 Fondanzlement. |
| 0:27.6 | This is The Lucan Obsession. |
| 0:28.6 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.6 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:36.6 | Welcome to the podcast of Moneybox Live, the program about your money. |
| 0:41.1 | Today, getting your head around interest rates and credit card charges and mortgage deals |
| 0:46.1 | is an effort for most of us. |
| 0:48.1 | So how do you manage if you have a learning disability as an estimated 1.5 million people in the UK |
| 0:54.0 | do? When you take longer to learn things |
| 0:56.7 | and find it difficult to understand complex information, your own personal finances can easily |
| 1:02.6 | end up in a mess. Today I'm going to be speaking to a former Paralympian about how they manage their |
| 1:08.1 | money, what challenges they face and whether financial companies are doing enough to meet their needs. We'll also be talking about how they manage their money, what challenges they face, and whether financial companies are doing enough to meet their needs. |
| 1:13.6 | We'll also be talking about how ADHD and other neurodifferences can affect your personal finances. |
| 1:19.8 | Our panel of experts will be on hand to advise what your rights are |
| 1:23.5 | when you need extra support with money matters and how to exercise those rights. |
| 1:28.7 | Well, joining me today in the studio is Dan Pepper, a retired Paralympian swimmer |
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