This is Money show - the lucky dip of price hikes, the big investing question it's easy to overlook, Lifetime Isas and alarming credit card debt
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This is Money
4.1 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2017
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The price of all sorts is going up this week - from stamps to council tax. This is Money's Rachel Rickard Straus and Lee Boyce play the lucky dip of price hikes - which involves a stop watch, chocolate eggs... and quick explanations of how bills are set to rise. Then it's on to debt - credit card, car... you name it. Is it a worry? Is it a big worry? What's going to happen next? (Spoiler alert - they think it's a worry.) The Lifetime Isa - Lisa - has just launched, so that's next on the agenda. Presenter George Frost and the This is Money team talk through whether Isas have had their day, why Lisas may or may not be a good idea, and the great whopping investing question that it's so easy to forget. And the grand finale... involves a lot of wretching. Well nearly -it would if the team weren't so well behaved. It's the Easter taste test, in which the supermarkets' not-very-finest chocolate eggs and bunnies are compared, as well as four types of hot cross bun.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Money, brought to you in partnership with NS&I, giving you 100% security backed by HM Treasury. |
| 0:13.1 | A very warm welcome to This Is Money Show in partnership with NS&I. I'm Georgie Frost. |
| 0:18.1 | And in the studio with me is personal finance editor Rachel Rickard |
| 0:21.3 | Strauss and Consumer Affairs Editor Lee Boyce to round up the week's top stories they've been |
| 0:26.0 | covering on their award-winning website this week. |
| 0:28.9 | And a happy Easter one and all, welcome to the new tax year. |
| 0:33.7 | The start of April heralds a swathe of changes to your personal finances, notably a number of price increases, impacting your bills, your communications, and even your teeth. |
| 0:44.9 | So what are they and what will they mean for the pound in your pocket? |
| 0:48.0 | There are many to go through. |
| 0:50.0 | So how to cover them all? |
| 0:51.3 | Well, now I was inspired by all the brew-ha-ha-ha about Easter egg hunts this week. |
| 0:59.1 | 350,000 people are expected to search for chocolate eggs at National Trust Properties. |
| 1:04.0 | But the annual events marketing on the organisation's website has upset the Church of England. |
| 1:09.1 | Previously called an Easter egg trail. It's now being |
| 1:11.9 | referred to as a cabri egg hunt. The Archbishop of York's told the Telegraph, removing references |
| 1:17.6 | to Easter is tantamount to spitting on the grave of the chocolate firm's Christian founder. |
| 1:23.4 | So keen to not offend, will, anyone, we have our own Easter taste test or not, whatever you like to call it, later on in the show, but Lee and Rachel will be put through their paces with our very own money egg hunt. |
| 1:37.2 | Now in the bucket, producer Tom is holding in his hands is eight chocolate eggs, not cabaret. I think they might actually be Tesco, but we can't be |
| 1:44.8 | sure about that. Each has a price rise written on them. We have prescriptions, stamps, TV |
| 1:50.8 | licenses, dental work, council tax, water bills, car tax, air passenger duty. So you have 30 seconds each |
| 1:58.7 | to explain each of those rises. |
| 2:01.6 | At the end, you get to pick the one that makes you most hot and cross. |
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