Thieves stole my identity
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
There's been a sharp rise in the number of people whose identity was stolen last year - up by almost 20% on the year before. It can have a devastating effect on your financial life. One listener tells us how it took months to restore her good name and cost her £10,000.
Young people are inevitably hit badly by a major financial crisis like the one we are living through. Figures out this week show that the number of young unemployed people is growing by more than 4000 every single day. One charity has told the BBC Three reporter Harvey Day that the number of people in their twenties applying for emergency help has soared.
And can National Savings and Investments keep up with the demands of being at the top of the best buy tables?
Email moneybox@bbc.co.uk
Presenter Paul Lewis Researcher: Lizzy McNeil Producers: Alex Lewis and Paul Waters Editor: Emma Rippon
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| 0:46.7 | Hello, I'm Paul Lewis, and in this Moneybox podcast, we hear of the devastating effect of having your identity stolen. One listener tells us it took months to restore her good |
| 0:51.6 | name and cost her £10,000. |
| 0:58.8 | The number of unemployed young people is growing by more than 4,000 every single day, |
| 1:00.9 | as they are hit hard by the pandemic. |
| 1:03.9 | Some are turning to charity to cope with their bills. |
| 1:07.1 | How well is national savings and investments keeping up with the demands of being at the top of the best-by-tables? |
| 1:10.6 | And I meet my doppelganger |
| 1:12.5 | or is it really me? But before that main menu, here's a little starter, if I can call her that, |
| 1:19.3 | Alex Lewis, our producer, has been tempted on air again to tell you about another major |
| 1:24.6 | money box success. Well, last week we looked at why motorists are continuing to pay the same price to ensure their |
| 1:31.2 | cars in lockdown as if they were still driving thousands of miles a year. |
| 1:35.6 | We spoke to a couple of listeners, Mark and Val, who'd been refused a refund by their insurers. |
| 1:41.5 | That is until we got in touch, and the insurers discovered that a mistake |
| 1:45.7 | had been made and refunds were duly paid. James Daly, who is also on the program, told us that |
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