Cash Chats

Your weekly digest of the biggest money stories from the last seven days, this week focusing on the 2021 UK Budget as announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak. I'm delighted that my guest this week is Claer Barrett, the Financial Times Consumer Editor and host of the FT Money Clinic podcast. Together we'll help you get underneath the policies to see how they'll actually affect you. This episode features: Furlough extension & support for self-employed What it means for the rich/poor divide The sleight of hand tax increases Whether the new £100 contactless limit is good or bad & More Read more about all these policies at becleverwithyourcash.com/cashchats174 You can let Andy know what you think of the show at becleverwithyourcash.com/survey21 Follow Claer on Twitter https://twitter.com/ClaerB  Claer's FT Money Clinic podcast https://www.ft.com/money-clinic-with-claer-barrett  ABOUT CASH CHATS Cash Chats is presented by money blogger and broadcaster Andy Webb. In 2020 the podcast was featured as one of the