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2 weeks ago | 
moneyweek.com | Daniel Hilton |Katie Williams
After weeks of jostling with ministers, chancellor Rachel Reeves will today (11 June) unveil her 2025 Spending Review, setting out departmental budgets and infrastructure investment for the next three years. Reeves will tell parliament the decisions that the Treasury have made in a statement to the House of Commons at around 12:30pm today, just after Prime Minister’s Questions. Many of her spending decisions have already been announced or leaked to the media.
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Mar 18, 2025 | 
moneyweek.com | Katie Williams |Ruth Emery
Government has been hinting at spending cutsThe government has been laying the ground for spending cuts through a series of comments in recent days, with a particular focus on health-related benefits. Speaking to Labour MPs on Monday, 10 March, prime minister Keir Starmer described the current system as the “worst of all worlds”. He said: "We've found ourselves in a worst-of-all-worlds situation – with the wrong incentives discouraging people from working, the taxpayer funding a spiralling bill.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
moneyweek.com | Henry Sandercock |Rebekah Evans |Katie Williams |Nicole Garcia Merida
Isa revolution – or damp squib? FeaturesThe Lifetime Isa, designed for the big life events of buying your first home and retiring, launches soon. John Stepek looks at how it works, and whether it’s any good. By John StepekPublished 23 February 17
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
moneyweek.com | Katie Williams
One of the most controversial measures revealed in the Autumn Budget was an increase to employers’ National Insurance (NI). Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced that employers’ contributions would increase from 13.8% to 15% from April 2025. The threshold at which businesses begin paying the tax on an employee’s salary will also drop from £9,100 per year to £5,000. Reeves was in a tight spot.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
moneyweek.com | Katie Williams
On a frosty day in January, April might seem like a world away. But the end of the tax year will come around quickly and your annual £20,000 ISA allowance will disappear with it. There are lots of different types of ISA available, allowing you to save or invest your money in a tax-efficient way. These include cash ISAs where you can currently earn rates of up to 5.01%, or stocks and shares ISAs where you can aim to achieve long-term growth tax-free.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
moneyweek.com | Katie Williams
Homeowners have enjoyed a temporary increase to stamp duty thresholds in recent years, meaning the property tax is only due on homes worth more than £250,000 (or £425,000 for first-time buyers). However, the tax-free thresholds are due to revert to their original levels from 1 April 2025, potentially adding thousands of pounds to the cost of moving house. The change will see the thresholds revert to £125,000 for regular buyers and £300,000 for first-time buyers.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
moneyweek.com | Katie Williams
Lifetime ISAs launched nine years ago, offering a 25% government bonus on savings. The idea was to help first-time buyers get on the property ladder and to boost pension savings among under-40s. But little has changed with the Lifetime ISA (LISA) since it launched, despite house prices and living costs going up. Today, the government said it is launching a review of the Lifetime ISA to understand if the product is still fit for purpose.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
moneyweek.com | Katie Williams
If you opened a Chase savings account in the summer to take advantage of the 1% bonus deal, your temporary boosted rate will come to an end this month. Savers who locked into the deal in June will see their interest rate fall from 4.5% to 3.5% AER on 16 January. For comparison, the best savings account on the market currently pays 4.85% (excluding a separate 5% Chase deal, which is only available to new customers).
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
moneyweek.com | Chris Newlands |Katie Williams
The price of Bitcoin has been one of the most-asked questions of Amazon’s virtual assistant, Alexa, in the UK over the past 12 months as the value of the cryptocurrency continues to soar. According to figures from the tech giant, which cover September 2023 to November 2024, pop star Taylor Swift and Bitcoin were named among the most popular Alexa queries of 2024.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
moneyweek.com | Katie Williams
At MoneyWeek, we publish a weekly round-up of share tips and a monthly digest of the top funds, trusts and stocks. But if you are thinking about investing for children rather than yourself, your investment strategy might look slightly different. With Christmas fast approaching, now could be a good time to give it some thought. Your children’s list to Santa is probably as long as your arm – and of course it is always nice to have a few things under the tree to unwrap.
