MoneyView 2026

• MoneyView England 2026 (PDF, 3.2MB)Opens in a new window
• MoneyView Northern Ireland 2026 (PDF, 2.5MB)Opens in a new window
• MoneyView Scotland 2026 (PDF, 2.5MB)Opens in a new window
• MoneyView Wales 2026 (PDF, 2.7MB)Opens in a new window
• MoneyView Wales 2026 - Welsh language version (PDF, 671KB)Opens in a new window

MoneyView is our flagship financial wellbeing survey.  It aims to outline people’s money situations through a wide range of financial wellbeing measures, allowing us to understand the challenges faced by the people we support.

Among the topics covered by MoneyView are:

• financial inclusion
• bills, credit and need for debt advice
• savings and financial resilience
• pensions and retirement
• financial confidence and satisfaction.

Since our 2025 edition, MoneyView has become an annual survey. This means we, as well as our partners, can be consistently equipped with the most up-to-date information about people’s financial lives.

MoneyView 2026 highlights the findings from the wave of interviews between August – October 2025.

In total, 12,647 people were interviewed. This included at least 1,000 people in each of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

To achieve a fully nationally representative sample we used a blend of online and offline face-to-face interviews. In total, around 15% of respondents were interviewed face-to-face. We sought to boost key subgroups that are under-represented in online panels including non-internet users, those living in Northern Ireland, those living in rural areas, ethnic minority groups and older age groups.

Through this research, MaPS, governments and other organisations working in financial wellbeing are able to identify who is most in need, and design and target interventions more effectively to help these individuals.

This research is designed to empower providers who are striving to create policies, products and services that suit their audiences. It also complements the vital research of other organisations, strengthening our collaborative evidence base to help people manage their money today and for the future.

The report includes further information about how we use the data across our own work, including in the Pensions Dashboards Programme, MoneyHelper and Money Guiders.

If you’d like to use our data in your own work you can learn more about Working with our survey data.

In our downloadable datasets, we break down estimates of the need for debt advice and overall financial wellbeing by different Westminster parliamentary constituencies and local authorities.

You can also view interactive heatmap versions of this data by local authorityOpens in a new window and by parliamentary constituencyOpens in a new window.

• Download the financial wellbeing scores by local authority and parliamentary constituency (Excel, 96KB)Opens in a new window
• Download the need for debt advice scores by local authority and parliamentary constituency (Excel, 95KB)Opens in a new window

There is a strong correlation between the two metrics but they don’t measure the same thing. While they both provide an indication of someone's financial situation, there are some important distinctions:

• The financial wellbeing (FFT) score is an index of several key themes which provide a measure of someone's general financial fitness. Key components such as savings, financial resilience and retirement planning are included in the FFT score.
• The ‘need for debt advice’ measure takes into consideration someone's financial situation and identifies whether they need debt advice if they are in problem debt, such as arrears. Specific situations such as being behind on bills or credit payments are key for this measure.

You can view older versions of MoneyView here:

• MoneyView UK 2025 (PDF, 1.6MB)Opens in a new window
• MoneyView England 2025 (PDF, 1MB)Opens in a new window
• MoneyView Northern Ireland 2025 (PDF, 1MB)Opens in a new window
• MoneyView Scotland 2025 (PDF, 1MB)Opens in a new window
• MoneyView Wales 2025 (PDF, 1MB)Opens in a new window