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Refused a home Covid test

Money Box

BBC

Business

4.2804 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

A Money Box investigation has found that people across the UK are being refused home Covid tests because of their credit histories. The government uses a credit scoring database to verify the identity of those asking for the tests but that relies on people having a credit history big enough to leave a footprint.

The guides on how to commit scams (and get away with it) being sold online and in plain sight on social media platforms.

And the ins and outs of the new furlough as announced by the Chancellor on Thursday.

Presenter: Paul Lewis Reporter: Dan Whitworth Researcher: Kafui Okpattah Producer: Alex Lewis Editor: Richard Vadon

Transcript

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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?

0:21.4

When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe?

0:25.1

I wouldn't even know where to start.

0:26.7

And I'm with the IRA.

0:28.5

Steakknife.

0:29.7

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:33.5

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:36.9

Hello, in this Moneybox podcast, we expose a how-to guide to online crime that's being openly sold on the internet.

0:45.4

And the Chancellor performs another U-turn on job support, and he is literally almost back where he started.

0:52.1

But first, a Moneybox investigation has found that people across the UK are being refused

0:57.2

home COVID tests because of their credit histories.

1:00.4

The government uses a credit scoring database to verify the identity of people who ask for a test

1:06.7

to be posted to their home.

1:08.8

The system works for most people, but can cause problems for the millions

1:12.7

who have very little credit history. Moneybox reporter Dan Whitworth is here, Dan.

1:17.4

Well, I want to start, Paul, by telling you about Kat. She's 22 and from Essex, and back in August,

1:22.9

she developed symptoms she thought might be COVID. So she tried to get a home test kit after she was told to go

1:29.1

to a testing centre that was 30 minutes away by car. Now she doesn't have one and obviously she

1:34.5

couldn't use public transport. Now to get a kit sent out to her, she needed to get her identity

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