The difficulties of renting on benefits
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Tens of thousands of low paid workers will face losing a week's pay or more because the firm that employs them is changing its payroll system. The pay is, in theory, just being deferred. But in practice that deferral could last until they leave their job. What will this mean for its lowest paid staff?
This week a committee of MP’s heard evidence that the practice refusing to rent to people on benefits is widespread. The housing charity Shelter is calling for it to be banned but letting agents don't think this is the answer.
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Presenter : Paul Lewis Reporter: Dan Whitworth 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. |
| 0:33.5 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:37.2 | Hello, later in today's program, |
| 0:39.3 | the controversial new benefit, universal credit, |
| 0:42.1 | will leave more than 4 million people better off, |
| 0:45.4 | but new research on its long-term effects |
| 0:47.3 | finds even more will be worse off. |
| 0:50.2 | Air source heat pumps, warm homes, |
| 0:52.0 | by squeezing air to heat them up. |
| 0:54.5 | It's cheap, and the government pays you to use one. |
| 0:57.3 | And a housing charity wants to ban landlords refusing a home to tenants on benefits. |
| 1:01.9 | But we start with the firm where tens of thousands of its employees already low paid |
| 1:06.4 | will face losing a week's pay or more next month. |
| 1:09.6 | That's because the firm is changing its payroll system. |
| 1:12.7 | The pay is, in theory, just being deferred. |
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