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 top finance podcasts by publications including Apple, Good Housekeeping, The Sun and the Independent. In 2019 it was awarded Best Money Podcast at the SHOMOS - the UK Money Bloggers community annual awards. On each Cash Chats episode you can hear Andy share ways to get the most from your money. He's often joined for friendly and accessible conversations by a friend from the UK Money Blogger community to cover topics as diverse as freebies and investments. Andy also runs the award-winning website Be Clever With Your Cash, presented Channel 5's Shop Smart Save Money and founded the community ukmoneybloggers.com. To contact Andy email [email protected] ANDY ON SOCIAL Andy's handle is @AndyCleverCash and you can follow him over at: twitter.com/AndyCleverCash instagram.com/andyclevercash GET ANDY'S WEEKLY NEWSLETTER You'll also get a free Quidco bonus for signing up https://becleverwithyourcash.com/newsletter/ MUSIC The music is Easter Island by Lonely Punk and provided on a creative commons licence

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