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Katy Kicker

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Dorie Clark

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Today on the show we’re talking energy bills; it’s Big Energy Saving Week 2018 with a number of organisations helping people cut their fuel bills and get all the financial support they are entitled to. There’s also a roundup of the latest personal finance news, and an update on what we’re doing here at Informed Choice at the moment.

Today on the show we’re talking energy bills; it’s Big Energy Saving Week 2018 with a number of organisations helping people cut their fuel bills and get all the financial support they are entitled to. There’s also a roundup of the latest personal finance news, and an update on what we’re doing here at Informed Choice at the moment.

ICR303: Saving money on your energy bills (with Katy Kicker)

This week on the show, we're talking about how to declutter your personal finances. Katy and I chat about why it's so important to declutter when it comes to your personal finances, before sharing a few of our own tips for decluttering. Katy Stevens Katy Stevens is a money blogger known online as Katykicker. Katy started Katykicker because she was making money online and people wanted to know how. She’s happy knowing that she is able to share money making and saving websites and tips with her readers. Katy also loves to share product reviews, frugal recipes, the odd craft and much more. You can follow Katy on Twitter @katykicker. Personal finance news -Monarch Airlines has gone out of business, leading to the cancellation of 300,000 flight booking. The Civil Aviation Authority says around 110,000 customers of the airline are currently stranded overseas, in need of repatriation on UK government charter flights. -The latest Markit/Cips UK manufacturing PMI index shows signs of a slowdown in manufacturing sector growth. Despite a boost for exporters from a weak pound, higher production costs and Brexit uncertainty is hampering growth prospects. -Prime Minister Theresa May has promised an additional £10bn of funding for the Help to Buy Scheme. The money will help another 135,000 people buy their first home. -Bank of England governor Mark Carney believes interest rates could rise in the "relatively near term". Speaking to the BBC, Carney suggested that it was time for the bank to "ease its foot off the accelerator". -Lack of financial protection among women is leaving families in a precarious situation. According to new research from Scottish Widows, despite saying that their households could only pay the bills for seven months should they not be able to work or pass away, only three in ten women have life insurance.

This week on the show, we're talking about how to declutter your personal finances. Katy and I chat about why it's so important to declutter when it comes to your personal finances, before sharing a few of our own tips for decluttering. Katy Stevens Katy Stevens is a money blogger known online as <a href="https://katykicker.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Katykicker</a>. Katy started Katykicker because she was making money online and people wanted to know how. She’s happy knowing that she is able to share money making and saving websites and tips with her readers. Katy also loves to share product reviews, frugal recipes, the odd craft and much more. You can follow Katy on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/Katykicker" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">@katykicker</a>. Personal finance news -Monarch Airlines has gone out of business, leading to the cancellation of 300,000 flight booking. The Civil Aviation Authority says around 110,000 customers of the airline are currently stranded overseas, in need of repatriation on UK government charter flights. -The latest Markit/Cips UK manufacturing PMI index shows signs of a slowdown in manufacturing sector growth. Despite a boost for exporters from a weak pound, higher production costs and Brexit uncertainty is hampering growth prospects. -Prime Minister Theresa May has promised an additional £10bn of funding for the Help to Buy Scheme. The money will help another 135,000 people buy their first home. -Bank of England governor Mark Carney believes interest rates could rise in the "relatively near term". Speaking to the BBC, Carney suggested that it was time for the bank to "ease its foot off the accelerator". -Lack of financial protection among women is leaving families in a precarious situation. According to new research from Scottish Widows, despite saying that their households could only pay the bills for seven months should they not be able to work or pass away, only three in ten women have life insurance.

ICR271: How to declutter your personal finances (with co-host Katy Kicker)

In this episode of Informed Choice Radio, what are the real world maths skills we should be teaching in schools? I'm joined by Katykicker to chat about new research that has found that more than three in five millennials in the UK have never used GCSE maths skills in everyday life, things such as algebra and trigonometry.  There's also a roundup of the latest personal finance news and the aftershow segment too. Introducing Katy Stevens Katy Stevens is a money blogger known online as Katykicker. Katy started Katykicker because she was making money online and people wanted to know how.  She's happy knowing that she is able to share money making and saving websites and tips with her readers. Katy also loves to share product reviews, frugal recipes, the odd craft and much more. You can follow Katy on Twitter @katykicker. Want to join the Informed Choice Radio squad and co-host a future episode? Find out more here. Personal finance news -Companies are returning the new one pound coin by mistake, hampering efforts to phase out use of the old one pound coin. The old £1 coin stops being legal tender on 15th October and Treasury officials estimate around one billion of them have already been removed from circulation. -British and German trade bodies have urged Brexit negotiators to put shared economic interests first. The British Chambers of Commerce and the Association of German Chambers of Commerce have warned that uncertainty over "business critical" Brexit issues - including workers' rights, tax and customs arrangements - must be tackled as a matter of priority. -Homeowners ready to take their second step up the property ladder say it’s harder than getting on it in the first place. This is according to the latest Lloyds Bank Second Steppers report, which tracks the ongoing plight of home owners looking to sell their first property whilst buying their second. -Most of the five million people who have rights in a salary-related pension from a former employer are not receiving timely information and advice about the many choices that they have to shape their pension in a way that works best for them. This is the key finding of a new policy paper jointly produced by pensions consultants LCP and mutual insurer Royal London. -Weeks without windows, sinking patios and waste water pouring down walls are just some of the home improvement disasters people are reporting to Citizens Advice. The Citizens Advice consumer service helped people with 40,000 problems related to home maintenance and improvements last year, two thirds of which were about substandard services, such as jobs being completed late or poor workmanship. Real world maths skills Last Thursday was GCSE results day. New data released by free-for-life credit reporting service, Noddle, has found that more than three in five millennials in the UK have never used GCSE maths skills in everyday life, things such as algebra and trigonometry. When asked what would have been more useful to learn, nearly half (46%) would have liked budgeting, over a third (37%) would have wanted to learn more about mortgages and more than a quarter (27%) would have benefited from extra knowledge about taxes. Respondents believed these would have helped with key financial milestones, especially those that they suggest signify adulthood such as paying taxes (59%) and getting a mortgage (54%).

In this episode of Informed Choice Radio, what are the real world maths skills we should be teaching in schools? I'm joined by Katykicker to chat about new research that has found that more than three in five millennials in the UK have never used GCSE maths skills in everyday life, things such as algebra and trigonometry.  There's also a roundup of the latest personal finance news and the aftershow segment too. Introducing Katy Stevens Katy Stevens is a money blogger known online as <a href="https://katykicker.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Katykicker</a>. Katy started Katykicker because she was making money online and people wanted to know how.  She's happy knowing that she is able to share money making and saving websites and tips with her readers. Katy also loves to share product reviews, frugal recipes, the odd craft and much more. You can follow Katy on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/Katykicker" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">@katykicker</a>. Want to join the Informed Choice Radio squad and co-host a future episode? <a href="https://www.icradio.co.uk/squad/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Find out more here</a>. Personal finance news -Companies are returning the new one pound coin by mistake, hampering efforts to phase out use of the old one pound coin. The old £1 coin stops being legal tender on 15th October and Treasury officials estimate around one billion of them have already been removed from circulation. -British and German trade bodies have urged Brexit negotiators to put shared economic interests first. The British Chambers of Commerce and the Association of German Chambers of Commerce have warned that uncertainty over "business critical" Brexit issues - including workers' rights, tax and customs arrangements - must be tackled as a matter of priority. -Homeowners ready to take their second step up the property ladder say it’s harder than getting on it in the first place. This is according to the latest Lloyds Bank Second Steppers report, which tracks the ongoing plight of home owners looking to sell their first property whilst buying their second. -Most of the five million people who have rights in a salary-related pension from a former employer are not receiving timely information and advice about the many choices that they have to shape their pension in a way that works best for them. This is the key finding of a new policy paper jointly produced by pensions consultants LCP and mutual insurer Royal London. -Weeks without windows, sinking patios and waste water pouring down walls are just some of the home improvement disasters people are reporting to Citizens Advice. The Citizens Advice consumer service helped people with 40,000 problems related to home maintenance and improvements last year, two thirds of which were about substandard services, such as jobs being completed late or poor workmanship. Real world maths skills Last Thursday was GCSE results day. New data released by free-for-life credit reporting service, <a href="https://www.noddle.co.uk/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Noddle</a>, has found that more than three in five millennials in the UK have never used GCSE maths skills in everyday life, things such as algebra and trigonometry. When asked what would have been more useful to learn, nearly half (46%) would have liked budgeting, over a third (37%) would have wanted to learn more about mortgages and more than a quarter (27%) would have benefited from extra knowledge about taxes. Respondents believed these would have helped with key financial milestones, especially those that they suggest signify adulthood such as paying taxes (59%) and getting a mortgage (54%).