Lasting Powers of Attorney and Tax Returns
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In 2020, Lasting Powers of Attorney in England and Wales went digital. If you had permission to act on behalf of a relative who could no longer do it themselves you could download a digital certificate to prove it from the Office of the Public Guardian. But some organisations including His Majesty's Revenue & Customs have told Money Box they will not accept these digital certificates and demand a certified paper copy instead. We'll speak to a listener who's struggling with the system and get responses from the OPG and HMRC.
People living in Northern Ireland will be watching their bank accounts and letterboxes closely over the next few weeks for some long awaited help with the cost of their energy bills. Unlike the rest of the UK, households haven't yet received any of the £400 help people in Great Britain have been getting in instalments of £66 or £67 or £200 which has been allocated to help towards the costs of alternative fuel - like heating oil and coal. We'll find out when and how that £600 will arrive.
Advice on what you can do if your identity is stolen - our reporter Star McFarlane investigates after it happened to her.
And what to do if you haven’t filed your self-assessment tax return yet, and how to avoid a fine. We'll speak to Dawn Register from the accountancy and business advisory firm BDO.
Presenter: Paul Lewis Reporters: Dan Whitworth, Eimear Devlin and Star McFarlane Producer: Catherine Lund Editor: Jess Quayle
(First broadcast 12pm Saturday 7th January, 2023)
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| 0:43.1 | Hello, welcome to this Moneybox podcast and Happy New Year, 2023, which incidentally is 17 squared times seven. |
| 0:51.6 | Well, the Prime Minister wants us all to be a bit more numerate, so I thought I'd share that with you. |
| 0:56.5 | Households in Northern Ireland will soon start getting payments of £600 towards their energy bills. |
| 1:02.3 | We explain how, when and why these payments are being made. |
| 1:06.2 | We hear from our researcher whose ID was stolen. What can she do to get it back? And if it's January, |
| 1:13.4 | and for 12 million people, it is self-assessment month when their tax return must be finished |
| 1:18.9 | and uploaded before midnight on the 31st. But we start with this. If you have permission to act |
| 1:26.7 | on behalf of a relative who can no longer manage |
| 1:29.0 | their financial affairs themselves, you can download a digital certificate to prove it from the |
| 1:34.3 | office of the public guardian. But two years after the new system for these what are called |
| 1:39.0 | lasting powers of attorney began, some organisations, including His Majesty's Revenue and Customs, have told Moneybox |
| 1:47.1 | they will not accept these certificates. Dan Whitworth has been investigating, Dan. |
| 1:52.1 | Well, Paul, when this digitisation process was launched in England and Wales by the Office |
| 1:56.6 | of the Public Guardian in July 2020, there were four million lasting powers of attorney or |
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