Energy Bill Support and Christmas Cheer!

Money Box

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4.2 • 804 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Electricity and gas suppliers say they're offering hundreds of millions of pounds of additional support for customers this winter. Energy prices will rise again on New Year's Day and the latest figures from the regulator Ofgem show customers already owe suppliers a record £3.7bn in unpaid bills. We'll look at what help customers might be able to get if they're struggling to pay their bills.

On Thursday the Bank of England kept the Bank Rate unchanged at 4.75%. We'll ask a mortgage broker what buyers can expect in 2025?

As a deadline approaches for government funded childcare hours for some working parents – how does it work and how can they apply?

We'll look back at some of the help given to Money Box listeners this year and hear music from the Barton Road Choir.

Presenter: Paul Lewis Reporter: Dan Whitworth Researchers: Emma Smith and Jo Krasner Editor: Jess Quayle

(First broadcast at 12pm Saturday 21st December 2024)

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to quickly tell you about some others.
0:05.2	My name's Andy Martin and I'm the editor of a team of podcast producers at the BBC in Northern Ireland.
0:11.3	It's a job I really love because we get to tell the stories that really matter to people here,
0:16.3	but which also resonate and apply to listeners around the world.
0:19.6	And because the team has such a diverse
0:21.2	range of skills and strengths, we have trained journalists, people who love digging through
0:26.0	archives, we've got drama and even comedy experts. We really can do those stories justice. So if
0:31.8	you like this podcast, head to BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more fascinating stories
0:37.1	from all around the UK. BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more fascinating stories from all around the UK.
0:40.3	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:43.9	Hello, welcome to this Moneybox podcast. People in England and Northern Ireland are racing to buy a new home before the April increases in stamp duty.
0:53.0	Some working parents with babies
0:54.6	have a deadline of New Year's Eve
0:56.7	to apply for funded childcare,
0:59.2	the Moneybox listeners who got an early Christmas present this year
1:02.3	and specially recorded for us,
1:04.9	the Barton Road Choir.
1:06.2	Say the same door,
1:09.0	and listening to bring in the rain,
1:12.6	the rain,
1:12.7	the snow is going to be sitting.
1:15.7	More of that later,
	...

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