You could get a heat pump rebate of £10,000… would that tempt you to buy one? This is the Money podcast


The government wants us to have heat pumps installed in our homes and is offering us up to £7,500 to do so.

Now Worcester Bosch is upping that by an extra £2,500 – if you choose one of them, of course.

But would it tempt you, considering the devices cost between £8,000 and £30,000 to buy and install? Georgie Frost, Helen Crane and Lee Boyce reveal all… and talk ‘boiler tax’.

Is inflation rising again? How concerned should we be about the latest figures? And what about the interest rate?

And millions of people will face a major price increase for their mobile phone and broadband from March. Isn’t it time that these inflation-reducing increases are banned during the life of the contract?

Also today… after years of campaigning by This is Money for fair treatment of parents who are not eligible for child benefit, parents who do not receive AOW credit will receive it. Tanya Jefferies explains everything you need to know.

Tanya also talks about a failed handover to a new administrator, which left BAE Systems retirees with drastic cuts of up to 50 percent to their pensions.

And Crane is on the case, this time above a robot vacuum cleaner…

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