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🗓️ 24 January 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Are you putting down the mince pies and opening your bank statements? Well, you're in the right place as we're dedicating some time to the kinds of money topics that come up between Christmas and New Year.
Perhaps you want to know your consumer rights before hitting the sales, what to do with unwanted gifts or maybe you've spent more than you can afford this festive season? If so, then you've come to the right place.
We'll hear why for hundreds of thousands of people, their tax return has become a festive tradition.
And we'll also look ahead to Summer 2024 and how to get some holiday bargains.
Felicity Hannah is joined by, etiquette coach William Hanson, Emma Munbodh, the money news editor at The Telegraph, Anna Hall the head of money and debt operations at the Money and Pensions Service and Rob Staines an independent travel expert.
Presenter: Felicity Hannah Reporter: Luke Smithurst Producer: Sarah Rogers Editor: Jess Quayle
(This is a slightly shorter version of an episode was first broadcast on Wednesday the 27th of December 2023 at 3pm on Radio 4)
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0:43.3 | Hello, we thought we would dedicate today's program to the kinds of money topics that come up between Christmas and New Year. |
0:50.4 | So we'll be talking about the sales. |
0:51.8 | Will you be out bargain hunting? |
0:53.3 | I only buy in sales. I only buy reduced. |
0:56.9 | But what does buying something at a discount mean for your consumer rights? And what about those |
1:01.5 | bank statements? I don't look. If you don't look then it can't bother you. Well, that's one way of |
1:07.2 | doing it. But one in four people went into debt to pay for Christmas. We'll have |
1:11.4 | guidance on getting out of it. And what about those presents you don't want? |
1:15.8 | I've re-gifted a purse, socks once to my other. It had to be done. Plus, if you're one of the |
1:20.2 | people who books a summer break while there's still frost on the ground, we have a warning about |
1:24.7 | increasingly sophisticated travel scams. And we'll hear why, for hundreds of |
1:29.3 | thousands of people, their tax return has become a festive tradition. Oh, Moneybox approves. |
1:35.9 | But first, one of the big questions in the days after Christmas is, what do you do with the gifts you |
1:41.9 | don't want? We ask these people in Preston. You get a bad pre-Christmas present, give a look at the eye. |
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