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🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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The government's new changes to welfare policy have been announced, with one estimate by the Resolution Foundation putting the potential impact at a million people losing access to £5,000 a year by 2030. Will Bain dissects what that could look like with an expert on all things benefits.
The latest Chinese electric car to come to the UK - the Leapmotor - has arrived to test-drive competition, backed by the parent company of Vauxhall, Peugeot and Citroen. Leapmotor's UK boss speaks to Wake Up to Money.
And ahead of the Women's Rugby World Cup and Women's Euros later this year, new figures predict revenues in women's elite sports are set to reach a new record in 2025. We find out what's behind the hype.
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0:34.4 | The government's new changes to welfare policy have been announced. |
0:38.0 | We'll look at what they mean, who may be impacted and whether the potential savings really add up. |
0:43.7 | Also on the program today, the latest Chinese electric car company to come to the UK, Leap Motor, |
0:49.4 | has arrived to test drive the competition, so to speak, but it's backed by the parent company of Vauxhall, |
0:54.1 | Peugeototaurce, and Citron as well. Le Leap Motors UK boss is going to speak to us on Wake Up to Money |
0:58.5 | this morning. And ahead of the women's rugby world cup and women's euros later this year, |
1:03.6 | new figures predict revenues in women's elite sport are set to reach a new record in 2025. |
1:10.0 | Wake up to Money with Will Bade. |
1:13.5 | Yeah, morning. Welcome to Wake Up to Money on Wednesday, the 19th of March, just gone 5 o'clock in the morning. |
1:19.2 | Will, with you this morning. Great as always to have you first thing. I hope the week is going well. |
1:24.6 | We've got plenty to get to as always. Sean, of course, has been teeing up, |
1:30.1 | I guess, those potential changes to welfare bill and how benefits are assessed and things like |
1:37.7 | that. We're going to be digging into what exactly was announced finally after all those previews |
1:41.7 | a little bit later on in the program. |
1:44.5 | And yeah, an interesting report from Deloitte, the big accountancy firm, about the scale of the money coming into women's elite sport this year. |
1:51.0 | And what is, as you heard there, a bumper year for top sporting events a little bit later on in the year. |
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