{"id":142002,"date":"2025-11-15T23:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T23:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142002\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T23:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T23:51:10","slug":"financial-advice-for-savers-irish-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142002\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial advice for savers | Irish Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Plus, health insurance costs and rent-a-room reliefs\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The EU's deposit guarantee scheme helps savers. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IB investment.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The EU&#8217;s deposit guarantee scheme helps savers. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Q I have a retirement lump sum, some of which I will spend and some of which I will invest or save. I have a Bank of Ireland \u2018super saver\u2019 account. Irish banks give very poor interest rates. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There is a German bank, Raisin, which seems to give good interest rates but I worry about how safe it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plus, health insurance costs and rent-a-room reliefs The EU&#8217;s deposit guarantee scheme helps savers. Photo: Getty Q I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2201,72,3361,8655,61,60,29207,81569,3362,5066,81568],"class_list":["post-142002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-airbnb","tag-business","tag-charlie-weston","tag-health-insurance","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-life","tag-laya-healthcare","tag-money-experts","tag-tax","tag-vhi-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}