Robert Parker-Jones

“£300,000 in savings bonds”

“£1,689 a month from my teacher’s pension”

“£817 via the state pension each month”

“£975 via interest from various investments”

“Groceries, £300; council tax, £217; gas and electric, £85; water, £26; broadband and TV, £26; mobile, £8; estate fees for property, £22; TV licence, £15; eating out, £200; Netflix, £6, lottery, £9”

“I try to add £1,500 a month to savings each month”

“Car hire for holidays, £46 a year; house insurance, £170 a year; travel insurance, £152 a year; car insurance, £253 a year; Amazon Prime, £95 for the year”

“We spend about £4,000 on holidays a year”

“After leaving school, I completed a three-year teacher training course”

“In my first year of teaching I was paid about £5,000 a year”

“My annual pay in this full-time job was about £36,000 to £40,000 a year”

“In total, I have £80,000 across my ISAs”

“I try to add £20,000 a year to my cash ISA”

“I live in a fairly new four-bedroom house owned outright which we purchased in 2014 for £193,000, though it had an asking price of £210,000”

“I got a £40,000 lump sum from my teacher’s pension and now get £1,689 a month from it”

“My state pension is £817 a month”