Opposite-sex civil partnerships become law
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In amongst this week's political upheaval, a date was set for opposite-sex civil partnerships to become law. The first ceremonies will take place on December 31 2019. So what impact could this have on your financial health?
Money Box has been hearing from disgruntled clients of a claims management firm demanding money from some customers years after they thought their claims were closed. Ben Carter has been investigating.
Earlier this week the regulator relaxed mortgage affordability barriers with the aim to help an estimated 150,000 home owners trapped in high cost loans and not able to switch to a better deal. The FCA estimates the measures may only help as few as 2000, leaving the rest still stuck.
Presenter: Paul Lewis Producer: Alex Lewis Editor: Emma Rippon
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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? |
| 0:21.3 | When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe? |
| 0:25.1 | I wouldn't even know where to start, and I'm with the IRA. |
| 0:28.5 | Steakknife. |
| 0:29.7 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.6 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:37.2 | Hello, I'm Paul Lewis, and in this Moneybox podcast, a claims management firm is demanding |
| 0:42.1 | money from some customers years after they thought their claims were closed, and are |
| 0:46.4 | mortgage prisoners about to be released, or is it just an amnesty for a very few? |
| 0:51.0 | But first, Reader, I civil partnered him. |
| 0:56.2 | It may not quite be Charlotte Bronte, |
| 1:00.4 | but by the end of this year, a woman will be able to form a civil partnership with a man instead of marrying him. Until now, civil partnerships, which began in 2005, have only been |
| 1:05.7 | available to same-sex couples. But this week, in its dying days, Parliament approved new rules to extend them |
| 1:11.8 | to opposite sex couples. And civil partners will have all the rights of married couples, and we'll |
| 1:16.6 | talk about the financial rights in a minute. But first, with me, is a very happy Martin Lote. He's |
| 1:21.7 | chair of the Equal Civil Partnerships campaign. Martin, you've won. Well done. When does it actually |
| 1:26.3 | start? Yeah, very soon. Yeah, thanks, Paul. |
| 1:28.4 | Yeah, we're delighted at the Equal Civil Partnership campaign because I think the election |
| 1:31.9 | suddenly played into our hands because the government decided to rush through the final part of |
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