What help can pensioners get with their rising fuel bills?
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
This week, the chief executive of the energy regulator Ofgem warned the energy price cap could rise to £2,800 a year for a typical home. A few days later, the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, unveiled a £15 billion package to help households with their fuel bills - the second in three months. We'll discuss the details of what that means for pensioners with Helen Morrisey from Hargreaves Lansdown.
We'll hear from the CEO of Amigo loans on a new scheme, approved by the High Court this week, which will allow thousands of people who were mis-sold loans to apply for compensation.
What to do if you end up paying for a subscription unwittingly or can’t cancel it – and how the government plans to try and prevent consumers losing out.
And a Money Box mini on the new interest rate for Premium Bonds announced this week.
Presenter: Paul Lewis Reporter: Dan Whitworth Researcher: Sandra Hardial Editor: Jess Quayle
(First broadcast 12pm on Saturday 28th May, 2022)
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| 0:43.3 | Hello, welcome to this MullyBox podcast. Over 100,000 customers of Amigo loans can apply for compensation now, |
| 0:50.7 | as the High Court has approved a scheme to keep the company afloat. Premium bonds will pay |
| 0:55.9 | more prizes from June, but don't expect a million pounds any time soon. And we hear from two |
| 1:01.7 | people caught out by the great online subscription trap will government plans to protect people |
| 1:07.4 | work. But first, just two days after the chief executive of the energy regulator |
| 1:13.2 | Ofgem warned that the energy price cap could rise to £2,800 a year for a typical home, |
| 1:21.1 | the Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled a £15 billion package to help households with their fuel bills, |
| 1:27.5 | his second package in three months. |
| 1:30.0 | It will partly be paid for by extra taxes on oil and gas companies, |
| 1:33.9 | something the government had previously ruled out, |
| 1:36.5 | that every household in the UK will get hundreds of pounds |
| 1:39.4 | to help with their record-breaking energy bills. |
| 1:42.5 | Dan Witt was here and has the details. |
| 1:44.8 | Well, the headline figure, Paul, is this. Every household in the UK will get an electricity |
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