{"id":277453,"date":"2026-02-02T21:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/277453\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T21:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:40:08","slug":"where-do-you-spend-your-money-tell-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/277453\/","title":{"rendered":"Where do you spend your money? Tell us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">With interest rates predicted to rise, we are being warned it could add <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-01-30\/interest-rate-hike-to-hurt-amid-cost-of-living-crisis-fca-says\/106282550\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/106282550\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">significant financial pressure<\/a> to many households, thrusting the cost of living back in the headlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">We know the impact is felt unevenly across the country and would like to better understand what your household budget looks like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-02-03\/if-rba-hikes-interest-rates-you-cant-say-it-didnt-warn-us\/106295546\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">If RBA hikes you can&#8217;t say it didn&#8217;t warn us<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Could RBA economists conceivably see inflation returning to target without a rate hike? We&#8217;ll know this afternoon, and while it&#8217;s not the dominant view, it&#8217;s not a fringe one either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">What are your biggest expenses? Are you making cutbacks? Do you afford yourself luxuries?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Are you comfortable, struggling or somewhere in between?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">We would like to hear from as many people \u2014 in as many income brackets \u2014 as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Your submissions will help guide our coverage and expand our understanding of how Australians are grappling with the cost of living.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Our journalists may be in touch for a TV, digital or social media story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">No identifiable information will be shared outside the ABC newsroom or published without speaking to you first.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With interest rates predicted to rise, we are being warned it could add significant financial pressure to many&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5168,72,943,176,5028,20326,61,6783,60,1087,174,175],"class_list":{"0":"post-277453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-cost-of-living","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-finances","13":"tag-household","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-income","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-money","18":"tag-personal-finance","19":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277453","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=277453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}