4.2 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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If there is a hundred pounds or more credit on your electricity or gas account you can get it back. We tell you how to do it and explain what the situation is if the firm has gone bust.
Simon York is the man in charge of tackling fraud at Her Majesty’s Revenues & Customs. We find out how much of the furlough grants have been lost to criminals.
What happens to drivers whose car is parked on the street but can’t afford to get it taxed or MOT’d?
And the man who asked his insurer a question and the answer cost him £350.
Presenter: Paul Lewis Reporter: Ben Carter Researcher: Sowda Ali Producer: Alex Lewis Editor: Rosamund Jones
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0:41.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello, welcome to this Moneybox podcast. |
0:43.3 | The man in charge of tackling fraud at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs |
0:47.3 | tells me how much criminals have stolen from the furlough scheme. |
0:51.3 | What happens to drivers whose car is parked on the street but can't afford to |
0:55.5 | get it taxed or MOT'd? The listener who asked his insurer a question and it charged him |
1:00.8 | £350 and the joy of contract law, a barrister explains. But first, if you're feeling |
1:09.0 | short of money, there could be £100 or more sitting |
1:11.6 | in your electricity or gas account. Millions of households have credit balances in them. And one |
1:17.7 | recent estimate put the amount sitting there at £1.7 billion. So can you get it back? Moneybox |
1:24.1 | reporter Ben Carter's here, Ben, a lot of people, a lot of credit. Why? Well, simply put |
1:28.4 | Paul, most of us pay for our energy by direct debit and while the direct debit amounts stay the |
1:32.8 | same each month, our consumption doesn't. People use less energy in the spring and summer. And as a |
1:37.8 | result, credits often build up leading into the autumn and winter. And of course, having a credit |
1:42.1 | balance for the winter can help people, can't it? They use more energy, may not have the money to cover the additional cost. That's right, |
1:48.0 | but it is, of course, dependent on your energy company surviving through the winter. 21 energy companies |
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