Dear Listener

The old gambler’s phrase “some you win, some you lose” comes to mind this week.

The winners were the “stripped of our pensions” campaigners who at last have got the compensation they have been demanding for five and a half years after their company pension schemes were wound up. Those involved talk to us through smiles rather than gritted teeth at last.

The losers were hundreds of thousands of married women who have been told they won’t, after all, be able to boost their state pension. A Lord defends the decision; a Baroness opposes him.

A major insurer is fined more than one and quarter million pounds after breaches in security that allowed thieves to steal more than three million pounds from its customers. Will the company apologise on air?

More ramifications from the collapse of the money transfer business First Solution.

And how to stop money ruining your relationship over Christmas.

If you’re just too busy to listen on Saturday, why not give the podcast a try? Then you can download the programme and listen on your MP3 player when it suits you – perhaps on that car journey to the in-laws. You can even sign up to get a podcast every week from iTunes and other services, so you never miss an edition.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/moneybox/

Best wishes

Paul Lewis

PS Don’t forget the live preview of Money Box on BBC1 Breakfast between 8.45 and 9, Saturday morning.

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