This email was sent to Money Box subscribers on 29 September 2006

Dear listener,

This weekend should see the end of age discrimination at work. But how do you go about challenging ageism? Why is the government allowed to have rates for minimum wage and redundancy pay which - you guessed it -discriminate on grounds of age? And pension schemes tell us why they want the rules relaxed much further.

Credit card firms have been forced to cut their penalty charges by the Office of Fair Trading. But now most of them have put up their interest rates. And that could cost us far more. Has the OFT action backfired?

Hundreds of thousands of new Standard Life shareholders - who used to be just customers – got a dose of reality this week as the company reported lower profits than expected. But 270,000 shareholders still haven't claimed their shares. Don't they open their post?

We go into a classroom to find the best way to teach children about personal finance.

And is this the start of the great pension scheme sell-off as another company is set up to take pensions off employers lock, stock, and deficit?

Money Box - Saturday at noon, Sunday at 9pm and any time on the web, where you can also hear my programme trail.

Best wishes,

Paul Lewis



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