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Following listening events in Northern Ireland and across the UK, The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) launched the UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing at the start of 2020. The Strategy is designed to bring partners together to transform the country’s financial wellbeing in a decade. UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing Since then, MaPS has been coordinating proposals for a Delivery...

UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing Following listening events in Wales and across the UK, The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) launched the UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing in January 2020. The strategy is designed to bring partners together to transform the country’s financial wellbeing in a decade. Since then, MaPS has been coordinating proposals for a Delivery Plan for...

UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing In 2020 the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) launched the 10-year framework for achieving our vision of ‘everyone one making the most of their money and pensions’: the UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing. Since then MaPS has worked with hundreds of partners in England and the whole of the UK, from across government, industry and the third...

New research reveals those with higher financial wellbeing are much more likely to be content with their lives than those earning top salaries Financial wellbeing involves feeling secure and in control, making the most of your money day to day and dealing with the unexpected16 million UK adults1 have lower financial wellbeing, meaning they are more likely to be less satisfied...

Many people who need help with their money are unaware of, unable or unwilling to receive support. Evidence suggests that people can be effectively reached and engaged with money help through other familiar channels and systems. Our Savings and Credit Pathfinders Programme aimed to design and explore ways to do this in practice and at scale, funding twelve projects across three...

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...

Pilot will help people in England access Mental Health Crisis Breathing SpaceIt will join up healthcare services with the debt advice sectorIt forms part of the £94.6m in debt advice funding from the Money and Pensions Service in 2021/22 The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) has launched an innovative new pilot to help people in mental health crisis avoid worsening debt problems, as part...

Professor Dame Carol Black, Chair of the Centre for Ageing Better, and Emma Douglas, Head of DC at Legal & General Investment Management, address later life and long-term saving, including barriers to financial wellbeing, initiatives that could drive change, and what motivates them as chairs within the UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing. We pay a lot of attention to...

This Mental Health Awareness Week, the chief executives of Mind and the Money and Pensions Service talk about the increasingly familiar link between money and mental health, and how the mental health and financial sectors are working together to respond to people’s changing needs during the coronavirus outbreak and beyond. Paul Farmer, CEO of Mind Money and mental health are often...

Delivery Plan for Northern Ireland

Delivery Plan for Wales

Delivery Plan for England

Beat the blues by focusing on financial wellbeing

The Savings and Credit Pathfinders Programme – evaluation report

Connecting practitioners: introducing our Money Guider Networks

Four ways MaPS helps customers with money and mental health problems

New £2.4m pilot for people in mental health crisis to help avoid spiralling debt

Pensions Awareness Week interviews: long-term saving and later life

Mental health and money: how Covid-19 could create the perfect storm

Managing money in uncertain times