Your Household Bills: Lincoln Live
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this special extended programme broadcast live from Lincoln, the Money Box team covers all you need to know as the financial year comes to an end and a new one begins. For many household bills are going up, from broadband costs and water bills to council tax - but what can you do if you're struggling? The team are joined by organisations who're supporting people every day, to find out what help is out there.
We're in Skegness to find out how local people and businesses are coping with energy costs.
We'll discuss what tax changes are coming in from April, and what allowances you're entitled to. Plus we'll mark 50 years since the introduction of VAT - Value Added Tax.
Don't miss music from the City of Lincoln Band and a special introduction from the Official Town Crier of Lincoln City too.
Presenter: Felicity Hannah Reporter: Dan Whitworth Researcher: Sandra Hardial Editor: Jess Quayle
(First broadcast 1130am on Saturday 1st April, 2023)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation. |
| 0:07.0 | It was an extraordinary news story. |
| 0:09.0 | The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny, |
| 0:14.0 | mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared. |
| 0:18.0 | One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for |
| 0:21.7 | Lucan. It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. I'm Alex Fontunzelman. |
| 0:27.4 | This is The Lucan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:36.5 | Hello, welcome to this Moneybox podcast. |
| 0:39.4 | 70,000 victims of fraud are sent texts by the police, asking them to make contact. |
| 0:44.9 | Will their banks be texting them too? |
| 0:47.5 | And people from ethnic minorities are paid less than people in the UK who are white. |
| 0:52.2 | We ask why and what can be done about it. |
| 0:54.8 | But first, more listeners have been in touch about problems with mortgages |
| 0:58.5 | after they have their lofts insulated using a product called spray foam. |
| 1:02.9 | Two weeks ago we told you about a warning from one of Britain's largest mortgage lenders nationwide |
| 1:07.4 | to avoid badly installed spray foam. |
| 1:10.4 | But we reported also that one listener had spray foam |
| 1:13.4 | installed professionally by a reputable firm and still had problems selling her house. And she's not |
| 1:19.4 | alone. Our reporter Dan Whitworth has been finding out more, Dan. Well, Paul, I've been hearing from |
| 1:24.3 | surveyors, estate agents, one of the largest spray foam manufacturers, lenders, mortgage brokers and the Equity Release Council to name just a few. |
| 1:33.1 | But the most illuminating testimony has come from the homeowners I've been speaking to, and that's people like Martin Shaw in Exeter. |
| 1:39.8 | He and his wife got spray foam put into their loft back in August 2021. |
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