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🗓️ 19 June 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Thousands of people are struggling to complete the purchase of their new home before a big rise in Stamp Duty begins on the first of July in most of the UK.
High street banks are told they are wrongly denying compensation to victims of fraud and they’ve been given a timetable to change their procedures.
And grieving families could be paying hundreds of pounds too much for a funeral because firms do not display their prices clearly.
Presenter: Paul Lewis Reporter: Dan Whitworth Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples Researcher: Stefania Okereke Producer: Helen Grady Editor: Alex Lewis
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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, welcome to this Moneybox podcast. Grieving families could be paying hundreds of pounds |
0:42.6 | too much for a funeral because firms do not display their prices clearly. And thousands of |
0:48.0 | people are struggling to complete the purchase of their new home before a big rise in stamp duty |
0:52.9 | begins in most of the UK from the start of |
0:55.5 | July. But first, more than two years ago, the High Street Bank signed up to a code of practice |
1:01.7 | to reimburse victims of fraud where they're manipulated to believe the thieves are in fact |
1:07.1 | helping them. But this week, a report says banks are wrongly leaving many customers |
1:12.1 | to bear the losses. The Lending Standards Board, a self-regulating body which polices the code, |
1:18.0 | said this week that banks are not listening to customers, are failing to explain their decisions |
1:23.4 | and are blaming customers for not taking enough care. Joseph Rene is from Kingston on Thames. |
1:29.4 | He and his partner had nearly £20,000 stolen between them, |
1:33.0 | but each had very different treatment from their bank. |
1:36.3 | My partner and I were both victims of the same scam |
1:38.9 | from the same bank on the same day, |
1:41.1 | and within two weeks she had been called |
1:43.2 | and was told that she was going to get all her |
1:45.5 | money back. I was not called. I had to call them. It wasn't, I didn't hear anything. And now a month |
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