Legal action planned over training costs
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Graduates who sign up to training programmes offered by some of Britain's biggest outsourcing companies are being hit with bills running into tens of thousands of pounds if they decide to leave within two years. Some of those affected are now planning legal action.
Will the government keep its commitment, written into legislation, to publish the details of how a ban on pensions cold calls will work by the end of the month? If it doesn't the Work and Pensions Secretary will have to explain to Parliament why that hasn't happened. Guest Rachel Vahey, Product Technical Manager, Nucleus Financial
It's been a bad week for the Universal Credit benefit. On Thursday the High Court found the way it was implemented unlawfully discriminated against two severely disabled men when their income dropped after moving over to it. We hear from one of the claimants and Tessa Gregory from Leigh Day Solicitors who represented the men.
On Friday a critical report from the public spending watchdog the National Audit Office said the Universal Credit system was slow and not delivering value for money. Guests Deven Ghelani, Director of Policy in Practice who helped shape the policy and Jane Millar, Professor at the Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath.
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| 0:00.0 | In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers. |
| 0:08.0 | But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA |
| 0:12.0 | was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife. |
| 0:18.0 | Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family? When lies are still being told to this day, |
| 0:24.0 | who do you believe? I wouldn't even know where to start and I'm with the IRA. |
| 0:28.5 | Steakknife. Listen first on BBC Sounds. Welcome to the download of Moneybox, the program about |
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| 0:44.3 | This is the BBC. Hello, in today's program, graduate job schemes that can land some graduates |
| 0:51.1 | with training bills of up to £20,000 are facing a legal challenge. |
| 0:55.5 | The ban on some pension cold calls could be delayed. |
| 0:58.3 | The government refuses to say if new rules will be published by the legal deadline of the end of this month. |
| 1:03.9 | And the Department for Work and Pensions unlawfully discriminated against two severely disabled men |
| 1:08.7 | when it moved them onto universal credit, |
| 1:12.7 | said the High Court this week. |
| 1:15.0 | But first, Moneybox has learned that some graduates are being hit with training bills |
| 1:17.5 | of nearly £20,000 if they fail to obey |
| 1:20.5 | strict rules about working for the following two years. |
| 1:23.7 | They are on a controversial scheme |
| 1:25.2 | run by one of the country's biggest outsourcing companies. |
| 1:28.3 | Some of those affected are now planning legal action. |
| 1:31.0 | Tony Bonsignor has been investigating. |
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