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Money Box: 21/04/2012

21/04/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Money Box, 21/04/2012

Paul Lewis looks at holiday pay for temporary workers, wine investment and PPI claims.

On Money Box with Paul Lewis: Holiday pay: claims that one of the UK's biggest recruitment agencies is short-changing workers. Also wine investment, PPI and power of attorney.

On Money Box with Paul Lewis: One of the UK's biggest part-time recruitment agencies, Adecco, is accused of short-changing workers by wrongly calculating the holiday pay they are owed. The firm denies it. We hear from one former worker who complained and got the full amount paid.

On the trail of the dodgy wine investment companies - we talk to the Insolvency Service and ask why they're not doing more to close down firms found be to trading against the public interest.

If you have power of attorney so you can deal with a relative's financial affairs on their behalf, how easy have you found it to deal with banks and building societies? New research suggests banks are inconsistent about what they require, often leaving relatives bewildered and confused by the whole process, at a time when they are already distressed.

And companies that offer to get you compensation for mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance: should they be banned from cold-calling or demanding upfront fees? And why are so many still operating when you can make the claim yourself? We hear from the Ministry of Justice on their efforts to clamp down on a growing industry.

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