Melanie Wright
Melanie Wright is money editor at Rest Less. An award-winning financial journalist, she has written about personal finance for the past 25 years, and specialises in mortgages, savings and pensions. She is a former Deputy Editor of The Daily Telegraph's Your Money section, wrote the Sunday Mirror’s Money section for over a decade, and has been interviewed on BBC Breakfast, Good Morning Britain, ITN News, and Channel Five News. Melanie lives in Kent with her husband, two sons and their dog. She spends most of her spare time driving her children to social engagements or watching them play sport in the rain.
Explore the latest articles by Melanie Wright
- Will the pension access age rising to 57 affect you?
- Mortgage warning: act now as rates rise
- How to reduce your tax bill when you take money out of your pension
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- Latest money news
- Your retirement countdown: A 5 year plan
- Everything you need to know about Universal Credit (and what’s changed)
- Should you take tax-free cash from your pension before the 2027 inheritance tax changes?
- Electricity bills to fall from October as VAT is cut: how much will you really save?
- Seven ways to pile on the pounds in 2026