{"podcast":{"title":"The Meaningful Money Personal Finance Podcast","slug":"the-meaningful-money-personal-finance-podcast-1082980","podcast_index_feed_id":1082980,"rss_url":"https://meaningfulmoney.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://meaningfulmoney.tv","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/1/8/5/8/1858b528fa4f1e1327a2322813b393ee/Podcast_Cover_Art_2017_3000px-20241118-ymbm934by9.jpg","author":"Pete Matthew","episode_count":350,"summary":"Pete Matthew discusses and explains all aspects of your personal finances in simple, everyday language. Personal finance, investing, insurance, pensions and getting financial advice can all seem daunting, but with the right knowledge and easy-to-follow action steps, Pete will help you to get your money matters in order. Each show is in two segments: Firstly, everything you need to KNOW, and secondly, everything you need to DO to move forward on the subject of that episode. This podcast will appeal to listeners of MoneyBox Live, Wake Up To Money, Listen to Lucy, Which? Money and The Property Podcast. To leave feedback or ask a question, go to http://meaningfulmoney.tv/askpete Archived episodes can be found at http://meaningfulmoney.tv/mmpodcast","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-meaningful-money-personal-finance-podcast-1082980"},"episode":{"title":"Listener Questions, Episode 38","slug":"listener-questions-episode-38","published_at":"2026-01-21T02:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-meaningful-money-personal-finance-podcast-1082980/listener-questions-episode-38","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-meaningful-money-personal-finance-podcast-1082980","url":"https://meaningfulmoney.tv/QA38","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/meaningfulmoney/QA38.mp3?dest-id=119595","summary":"It's another Meaningful Money Q&A, taking in the £100k tax trap, splitting pensions on divorce, safely switching investment platforms and much more! Shownotes: https://meaningfulmoney.tv/QA38 01:59 Question 1 Hi Roger and Pete, Long time listener, first time questioner. My wife and I have both earned in excess of £100k for a few years now, meaning I am acquiring a peculiar set of skills on the various ways to use pension contributions, rollover allowances, gift aids, etc to keep us both below the (entirely bananas) £100k cliff-edge each year. My question is on the £60k pension annual allowance. Does it only apply to the amount of pension savings in a given year which can be made without paying a tax charge, or does it also count as the maximum amount of pension deduction which can be taken to calculate net adjusted income as part of completing our tax returns? The (slightly over-simplified) situation in my mind is that if I earned £160,500 in a given year, I would prefer to pay £61k into a pension, thereby reducing my net adjusted income to £99,500 to stay below the cliff-edge, even if I had to pay 40% tax on the extra £1000 above the pension annual allowance. As a fun aside, I asked this to my preferred AI - and I leave a link to see if you agree with it's answer or not - https://g.co/gemini/share/8c23e91cb658 Stephen 07:58 Question 2 Hello Pete & Roger Listen and enjoy all your podcasts regularly but every now and again you get one that addresses specific points to the individual listener. For me it was Podcast QA18. A really great podcast. 1. The 2015 changes to pensions made significant differences to pensions and most financial experts have rightly advised using your pension as one of the best places to put savings. It does seem unfair that you plan your savin…","meta_description":"It's another Meaningful Money Q&A, taking in the £100k tax trap, splitting pensions on divorce, safely switching investment platforms and much more! S…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2732,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-meaningful-money-personal-finance-podcast-1082980/episodes/listener-questions-episode-38/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-meaningful-money-personal-finance-podcast-1082980/listener-questions-episode-38.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}