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Keeping energy bills in check

Money Box

BBC

Business

4.2804 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

As the price of gas and electricity continues to soar. What more can be done to keep our bills in check?

New pensioners who have turned 66 this year are facing long delays before their pension is paid as the queue of those waiting doubles.

And as theft from customers bank accounts rises 80% in six months, should the Government declare fraud a threat to national security?

Presenter: Paul Lewis Reporter: Dan Whitworth Researcher: Anita Langary Production co-ordinator: Janet Staples Producer: Alex Lewis Editor: Emma Rippon

Transcript

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0:00.0

On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.

0:07.0

It was an extraordinary news story.

0:09.0

The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,

0:14.0

mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.

0:18.0

One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for Lucan.

0:21.6

It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime.

0:25.6

I'm Alex Fondunzelman.

0:26.6

This is The Lucan Obsession.

0:28.6

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:30.6

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:35.6

Hello, welcome to this Moneybox podcast.

0:39.5

New pensioners who reached 66 this year are facing long delays before their pension is paid,

0:45.7

and theft from customers' bank accounts rises massively.

0:49.2

It's fraud a threat to national security.

0:52.5

But first, as gas prices so saw, individuals are feeling the pain.

0:57.5

Moneybox listener Jim tweeted us this week after being told by his supplier, Eon, that his fixed

1:03.0

deal was coming to an end. I was a bit taken aback by the increases. So my current tariff

1:08.5

is 2,196 a year.

1:12.6

And they offered me a renewal offer, which was just under 25%, about 24.8% higher.

1:19.7

And if I failed to do anything at all, they will automatically switch me to one which is 33% higher.

1:26.7

Yes, that's a big rise, isn't it?

1:28.5

It's chunky, yes.

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