Rick Kelsey
@RickKelsey
Presenter 📻📺 @TimesRadio @BBC @channel5_tv 🏃♂️@therunningchannel 🎬 Personal Finance ✍️ . Campaigner @mndassoc
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https://youtu.be/RwtWb2qpkms 02-09-2009 10:53:17
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We've got a brilliant opportunity for an experienced & talented journalistic leader to join the senior team at Times Radio
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I made a BBC Sounds show where we definitely answer the question 🙋 in the title: Should I put a wind turbine on my roof? With the superb Rosemary Barnes
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…
On the Times Radio show today, as the government loses another MP we look at the current numbers of the parties .
Plus financial tricks to help your family.
•Guarantor mortgage 💸
• Gifting your kids a few quid 💷
• Saving for your kids 🧒 tax-free.
One in nine adults has missed a bill payment in last six months.
👍🏼🗞️ that’s down 3.5 million people from last year
🙈🗞️still more than before cost-of-living crisis.
James Andrews tells us how to cut your debt on cards, loans and mortgage issues on Times Radio
The seven year relationship itch has a financial arm - it’s called the 7 year rule. Tonight we are myth busting about inheritance tax.
-💰about 30% think they’ll pay it
- 💷only about 4% actually pay it.
📻 Times Radio
More young workers are PAUSING their pension contributions. But how much does a couple need each year to live on in retirement?
Basic: 18k (13k single)
Comfortable: 26k (19 single)
Luxury: 41k (31k single)
On tonight’s Times Radio show Tom McPhail explains.
The biggest change to free childcare in a generation starts tomo.
Good stuff👍🏼
15 hours free for 2 year olds
15 hours for 9 month olds from Sep
30 hours for 9 month olds from Sep 25
Bad stuff 🙈
Potential funding shortfall
Not enough places
Earnings cut offs
Times Radio
“You can’t invent an army when you’re at war”.
Polls show that Labour is more trusted with defence than the Conservatives. “If we were attacked now as a nation, we wouldn’t have the basic ammunition to properly defend ourselves”, says Tim Montgomerie.
@Montie | Rick Kelsey
“My view is that political honours should be got rid of completely”.
Sunak’s ‘surprise’ honours list is full of candidates who have “not gone through the normal vetting system”. This “has brought the system into disrepute” says Dominic Grieve for Beaconsfield.
Rick Kelsey
“If Ukraine falls, it’s a matter of time before we fight.”
Tim Marshall reacts to @DonaldTusk’s claim that “we are in a pre-war era” - but it is closer to 1936 than 1939, he says.
Tim Marshall | Rick Kelsey | #TimesRadio
ISA CHANGES - There is a big mix up in ISA savings next week. You can open multiple cash or stocks savings accounts - still max £20k a year. You can also switch more easily. The details on Times Radio money moment. Plus the finest in politics from Peter Cardwell and Nadine Batchelor-Hunt
Saudi Arabia’s first alcohol shop in 70 years is now open. Been looking at the potential for a wider 2030 tourist opening up for show on BBC Sounds with help from the brilliant Kristian Ulrichsen bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…
Child benefit extension will be MUCH more of a boost to many middle earning families than any tax threshold nulled 2p NAT. Insurance cut.
1 👶= £1331 a year.
2👶👶 = £2,212 a year
3 👶👶👶= £3,094 a year.
In full if you earn up to 60k ( tapered to 80k) #Budget2024
Child benefit extension will be MUCH more of a boost to many middle earning families than any tax threshold nulled 2p NAT. Insurance cut.
1 👶= £1331 a year.
2👶👶 = £2,212 a year
3 👶👶👶= £3,094 a year.
In full if you earn up to 60k ( tapered to 80k) #Budget2024
2 year olds can get 15 hours free childcare from April. 9 month olds from Sep. But deadlines to apply - some soon. You need to:
💰Earn more than 8k a year
💷Earn less than 100k a year
📻More on the show on Times Radio money moment. Plus fine lines from Peter Cardwell Fern Buckley
