When you first land in prison, contacting your bank and creditors may well be towards the bottom of your list of priorities. However, once you’re a bit more settled you can make life easier on yourself and reduce stress by ensuring your bank is aware of your current circumstances. This could stop your accounts going dormant, reduce charges/interest and make it more likely that you have banking in place for your release.

On this episode, Barry from the brilliant organisation ‘Ingeus’ is here to remind us what steps you could take whether you’re at the start, middle or coming to the end of your sentence

USEFUL LINKS:

• Ingeus

• Stepchange

• National Debt Line

• Job Centre

• Unlock - Managing a bank account in prison

• Prisoner Banking Programme

• Quids In Magazine

• Clean Slate

If you would like to get in touch with Money Mondays and ask us a question, suggest a topic or start a conversation, you can E-mail us at...

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This episode is hosted by...

Zak - The award-winning co-presenter of NPRs 'Life After Prison' Podcast

Emma - Works for 'Clean Slate' & their money skills resource 'Quids In' - Who provide information and support to people on lower incomes

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