Money essentials

Get familiar with money management, pension essentials & making more of your money.


Topics

Understanding the essentials is the first step in improving financial wellbeing. Simply scroll to the topics and resources that interest you to get going.

Personal finance essentials

Keep your financial wellbeing in good health

Tips to help you discover how to keep your money in good health

Budget planner

A calculator from MoneyHelper to track your money coming & going

Managing your money

A free guide from MoneyHelper to understand money management

Pension essentials

Workplace pensions

An introduction to workplace pensions

Understanding pension contributions

A guide to how your payslip shows pension contributions

Starting out with pension basics video

A video about the benefits of your pension and how it all works

Making more of your money

Types of savings

Information from MoneyHelper including saving for life goals

Is it worth putting my bonus into my pension?

Tips on whether it’s worth putting your bonus into your pension

How it works: pension tax relief

A guide to help make sense of tax relief on pension contributions

How to track down my old pensions

Useful tips to help you find old or lost pensions

Transfer my pensions

A guide to combining your pensions in one place

Pay more into your pension

Information about saving more in regularly or as a one-off

New resources

Transfer my pensions

A guide to combining your pensions in one place

Keep your financial wellbeing in good health

Tips to help you discover how to keep your money in good health

Understanding pension contributions

A guide to how your payslip shows pension contributions