{"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":"QA42 - Listener Questions, Episode 42","slug":"qa42-listener-questions-episode-42","published_at":"2026-03-18T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-meaningful-money-personal-finance-podcast-1082980/qa42-listener-questions-episode-42","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-meaningful-money-personal-finance-podcast-1082980","url":"https://meaningfulmoney.tv/QA42","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/meaningfulmoney/MMP613.mp3?dest-id=119595","summary":"Pete Matthew and Roger Weeks cover self-employed saving rates, inheritance tax and estate planning, and how dividends are treated inside pension drawdown (including SIPPs). They also discuss salary sacrifice and contribution limits, the pros and cons of recycling tax-free cash, and whether to overpay your mortgage or invest via a Stocks & Shares ISA. Shownotes: https://meaningfulmoney.tv/QA42 01:07 Question 1 Hi Pete and Roger, Thank you for your amazing podcast! My question is about budgeting & savings percentages: Should you aim for a % of your gross pay or your net pay when it comes to aiming for a savings percentage? e.g. Invest 20% of gross or net? I'm self employed and work contract to contract. From each contract payment I have to give 25% to agents and lawyers. Then I get paid the rest and have to put aside some of the money ready for the Tax man. When planning for how much I should save / invest from each contract payment should I be putting aside: 20% of the original contract amount? (which would be prior to the agents taking their cut and prior to the tax man taking his cut?) 20% of the amount left after the agents but prior to the tax man? Or 20% after both the agent cut and tax man cut? Thank you! Isabel 05:50 Question 2 I am a 70 year old widow with no children. My current net worth is about £2 million. This is made of of a house (£500,000), savings and investments (£1,150,000) and a drawdown pension pot of £350,000 which I inherited from my husband. My husband died aged 68 so the pension pot is currently tax free. I plan to leave our inheritance tax free allowances of £650,000 to family, mostly nephews and nieces and the reminder to charities. The drawdown pension will also go to named family members until the rules change in 2027 after which this will a…","meta_description":"Pete Matthew and Roger Weeks cover self-employed saving rates, inheritance tax and estate planning, and how dividends are treated inside pension drawdown…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1883,"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/qa42-listener-questions-episode-42/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/qa42-listener-questions-episode-42.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}