How much of the Chancellor’s giveaway will come your way?

Money Box

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4.2 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

As quarantine is lifted and airports get ready for summer flights, are some airlines taking advantage of people who are being offered the opportunity to rebook their flights?

Earlier this week Chancellor Rishi Sunak outlined how he planned to get the economy up and running again following the harm done by coronavirus. Front and centre was a £2bn "kick-start' scheme to create more jobs for young people. But does it go far enough? Poppy and Ataysha - two young people who could be helped - tell us what they think. With Sam Windett, Chair of the Youth Employment Group.

There were also big announcements on the coronavirus job retention scheme with £1000 promised for every person firms bring back to work after being put on furlough. But we hear about the furlough scheme sums that were just too tricky for one employment agency. With Lucy McLynn, Partner and Head of Employment at BatesWells.

Plus stampduty, VAT and eating out.

Presenter: Paul Lewis Reporter: Dan Whitworth Researcher: Lizzy McNeill Producer: Alex Lewis Editor: Emma Rippon

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0:47.6	Hello and welcome to this Moneybox podcast, a two billion pound kickstart program for young unemployed people, but will it really kickstart their careers? How much of the 30 billion pounds
0:53.2	the Chancellor gave away this week will come your way.
0:56.4	And the furlough scheme sums that were just too complicated for one part-time agency.
1:02.3	But we start with the topic that is top of your list, at least as far as your emails to us are concerned, travel problems.
1:09.8	As quarantines lifted, airports get ready for summer flights.
1:13.2	Are the airlines taking advantage of people who are being offered the opportunity to re-book delayed or cancelled trips?
1:20.6	I booked some flights in January this year to go to Spain for me, my husband and his two children.
1:29.3	As COVID-19 took hold, we were getting a bit nervous about going, but we wanted to see how
1:36.2	things were panning out.
1:38.5	Had a couple of emails from Ryanair saying that they were confirming a flight time change. We didn't want to accept
1:49.3	because we weren't planning on going. Then I received an email saying that we could change
1:56.4	the flights for free. So I went online and got put through to a customer service agent and they said,
2:04.5	basically, I couldn't change them free of charge to any flight. It was the next available flight.
2:11.4	But it didn't state that in the email. It just said free of charge. I went to try and change them to next year,
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