Financial wellbeing blog

What impact has Covid-19 had on financial wellbeing? Our head of insight Nick Watkins explores on how the pandemic has affected the UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing goals for financial education, saving, credit use, debt advice and pensions. When we launched the UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing in January 2020, we had no idea that the first Covid-19 cases would be detected in the...

There’s a money side to most of life’s challenges, which is why the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) is proud to have developed the first free, national Money Guider learning networks to support practitioners from a range of sectors across the UK. Networks and communities lead Richard Denyer-Bewick shares how you can connect with others and build confidence to deliver effective money...

Money problems can cause mental health problems, and mental health problems can cause money problems. This Mental Health Awareness Week policy, insights and external engagement director Sarah Porretta shares four of the ways that the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) helps customers caught in this spiral, and how your organisation can help us reach more people. Money and mental health...

This Debt Awareness Week, Craig Simmons, head of debt policy and strategy at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS), provides an update on MaPS activity to drive forward better debt advice. On the verge of a new financial year, organisations across the UK are no doubt deep in thought about their budgets for the year ahead. While entirely true for the debt advice...

This Global Money Week, children and young people policy manager Zoe Renton shares four things the Covid-19 pandemic and recovery highlight about delivering meaningful financial education. There is a real opportunity to ensure that families are supported to build their children’s money skills, young people get targeted money guidance, financial education programmes are tailored to...

Networks and community lead Richard Denyer-Bewick shares three free ways your housing association can support residents with money matters by developing your skills and joining a new community of money guiders across the UK, to take your help further. There’s a money side to most of life’s challenges, so it’s no surprise that the coronavirus pandemic has affected the way people manage...

Policy manager Sophia Spence-Cheng shares thoughts on a new £900,000 programme funded by the Money and Pensions Service that tests innovative ways to deliver meaningful financial education to children and young people across the UK. Here at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS), we lead on a vast programme of policy, research, and insight to understand what works in the provision and...

Craig Simmons is Head of Debt Policy and Strategy at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS). The past few years have certainly signalled an increasingly higher profile of debt problems in the UK. While this growth in problem debt is a very significant cause for concern, there has been the positive and wider recognition that the debt advice sector is now receiving. Those who work in...

Policy managers Zoe Renton and David Marjoribanks share six pilots funded by the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) to test scalable ways to build financial wellbeing. Children and Young People Pathfinders: testing the delivery of financial education at scale Our £1.8m Children and Young People (CYP) Pathfinder programme tests the delivery of financial education at...

Jemma Waters leads the Responsible Transformation team at Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), working on initiatives to drive positive societal impact and sustainability through technology. As part of this, Jemma’s team deliver the LBG commitment to the digital inclusion and skills agenda, providing confidence and capability support via the Lloyds Bank Academy and a colleague volunteer Digital...

The 3 D’s of Covid

Connecting practitioners: introducing our Money Guider Networks

Four ways MaPS helps customers with money and mental health problems

Debt advice budget update

Four things Covid-19 highlighted about financial education

Three ways to help your residents with Covid-19 money worries

Testing what works and addressing gaps in financial education: seven pilots for children and young people

Update on debt advice projects driving forward our Better Debt Advice agenda for change

Building financial wellbeing at scale: six pilots for children and working-age adults

Four ingredients for digital inclusion

Managing money in uncertain times