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You and Yours: Personal Independence Payment, Text message charges, Tumble dryers

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01/12/2016

Personal Independence Payment, Text message charges, Tumble dryers

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Personal Independence Payment, Text message charges, Tumble dryers

Personal Independence Payment checks, text message charges and faulty tumble dryer repairs

Why personal independence payments assessments don't always work. We look at text message charges, and why things still go wrong after faulty tumble dryers have been "repaired.".

People with diseases that affect the way they think are being wrongly turned down for sickness benefits because of what they are saying in their personal independence assessments.

We look at strange text message charges that crop up on bills.

Why people with faulty tumble dryers that catch fire ARE STILL having problems with them, even after the manufacturers have sent an engineer out to fix them.

How much does it cost to find your child a job?

And how beauty care for those with dementia can really make a difference.

PRESENTER: WINIFRED ROBINSON

PRODUCER: LYDIA THOMAS.

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