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On Money Box with Ruth Alexander:

The last in the series of Money Box travel tips - over to listeners! Ruth speaks to travellers at East Midlands Airport about how they save money on holiday. From currency exchange tips to car hire wheezes.

Compensation specialists are disputing the redress paid out to some victims of the payment protection insurance mis-selling scandal. Different banks are using different methods to calculate the compensation due - methods which can affect the amount you get by thousands of pounds. Michael Robinson reports for Money Box.

How to top up your New State Pension if you are retiring from April 2016. If you do not have the full record of 35 years of National Insurance contributions or credits, or have contracted out of Serps, you will not get the full New State Pension of at least 拢151.25. But there is a window of opportunity for people to pay extra NI contributions from this October to help boost their New State Pension. It could mean receiving thousands of pounds more in pension payments over the years, for a one off payment of just over 拢700. Former Pensions Minister, Steve Webb, explains who might benefit.

The government confirmed this week that large companies will have to publish the gap in average wages between male and female staff. The Prime Minister said it would "cast sunlight" on pay discrepancies - on average a woman in full-time work earns ninety pence for every pound earned by a man. But just why don't we talk about what we earn? Well, most of us don't - but they do at Cougar Automation, a small engineering services firm in Portsmouth, which employs about 100 people and is run by Derek Burton, who speaks to the programme.