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Climate change is pushing up food prices — and worrying central banks on.ft.com/3VH3BVC

Two facts re winter fuel allowance: 1) At £200 it's same in cash terms as in 2000 - a real terms cut of 45%. Slow drift into irrelevance. 2) Pensioners much better off than they were then - poverty rate down from 26% to 16%, median income up 38% (only up 19% for non-pensioners)

Enjoyed this one

ICYMI: Ed Ball and George Osborne argue over whether austerity was necessary - and who got their approach to the economy right.

telegraph.co.uk/money/pensions… See my new The Telegraph piece on John Lewis & Partners pensions

🎧🎙️ The Budget and the debt: What happens if Rachel Reeves borrows more money? This is a brilliant Expert Factor episode on debt, borrowing, fiscal rules and the chancellor’s options With Paul Johnson Anand Menon and Hannah White podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

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Yes - don't make a mess of pensions.

So when the pension fund transfers to the surviving spouse it is still IHT free, however subsequent transfers to beneficiaries will be liable to IHT; will this lead to more widows/widowers buying annuities on first death...?

How many farmers will actually be affected by the changes to inheritance tax? Dan Neidle does the math...

What is the government’s policy on inheritance tax for farms and who will be affected? @c4ciaran has the latest from C4 News FactCheck.

Lifetime cashflow forecasting is a core part of financial planning that could help you understand how your future may look! wealthatbluesky.com/4-valuable-way…

In Scotland low earners will pay up to £28 p.a. less income tax than rest of UK. But £1,528 more if income is £50k and £5,207 more if income is £125k. Scotland has starter, basic, intermediate, higher, advanced and top rates of income tax ifs.org.uk/publications/a…

I still think represents the most shocking void in the UK’s COVID response - when the largest biomedical facility offered to undertake testing (many universities did the same) the government didn’t even answer. The cost would have been minimal. Was it really that no-one would

Shocking stat on Lifetime ISAs I've seen for the first time. If more people are being penalised by the products terms (99,650) than are benefitting from its primary objective to buy a home (56,900) Then it's an utter failure. And tragically a likely transfer from from the

Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract. There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m... Thread:

Agree with the article. Reform needs to be carefully thought out, not introduced to raise short term money and will take a long time. Legitimacy is crucial. But the economics profession is not misguided in calling for major reforms. Major reform is very much needed.