Paying to access your holiday refund
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Listeners whose holidays have been cancelled are telling us that they are having to pay to get their money back off their credit card. With Helen Saxon, Banking Editor at MoneySavingExpert.
Thousands of parents are using lockdown as an excuse not to pay maintenance for their children. Single parent charity Gingerbread say that Covid-19 is making things worse and that the official service that should make them pay is not checking what they say.
The face masks that cost $10 to buy but $109 to deliver - and still don’t arrive. The dangers of believing ads on Instagram and social media.
Presenter: Paul Lewis Researcher: Lizzy McNeil 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? 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. BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. Hello, I'm Paul Lewis and welcome to this Moneybox podcast, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:40.8 | Hello, I'm Paul Lewis and welcome to this Moneybox podcast. |
| 0:44.0 | Hundreds of thousands of people can't get hold of their cash as the regulator suspends banking apps and currency cards that use wirecard. |
| 0:48.7 | Its German parent company has gone bust. |
| 0:51.6 | Thousands of fathers are using lockdown as an excuse not to pay maintenance for their children, |
| 0:56.1 | and the official service that should make them is not checking what they say. |
| 1:00.0 | The face masks that cost $10 to buy, but $109 to deliver and still don't arrive, |
| 1:06.3 | the dangers of believing ads on Instagram and social media, |
| 1:09.5 | and the 15-year-old whose business is taking |
| 1:11.9 | off after she rang Moneybox Live. But we start with the news that hundreds of thousands of |
| 1:17.6 | people were shut off from their money on Friday as the regulator suspended dozens of currency cards |
| 1:22.9 | and some apps that offer banking services. Curve, pocket, you account, Fairfx, and a dozen other cards can no longer be used. |
| 1:31.4 | They all rely on a firm called Wirecard Card Solutions Limited to store and move customer money. |
| 1:37.6 | That firm is the UK subsidiary of the German company Wirecard AG, |
| 1:43.2 | which was put into administration this week after nearly |
| 1:46.1 | two billion euro was found to be missing, auditors identified fraud and its chief executive |
| 1:52.7 | was arrested. Moneybox understands that the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK is checking |
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