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On Your Behalf: Making Financial Sacrifices At Christmas? Don't Make Your Mortgage One Of Them!

Making Financial Sacrifices At Christmas? Don't Make Your Mortgage One Of Them!

23/12/2017

BBC Radio Ulster - On Your Behalf, Making Financial Sacrifices At Christmas? Don't Make Your Mortgage One Of Them!

Christmas financial sacrifices, muzzling guide dogs, poor mobile phone signal and more...

If you're making a financial sacrifice this Christmas, don't let it be your mortgage. Plus, do you think you should have to muzzle a guide dog on a plane?

This week we have Patricia Lyons of Belfast Citizen’s Advice Bureau live in the studio to answer your questions on welfare reform and money pressures at Christmas, and we’re also joined by Doreen McKenzie of ABTA who will comment on the story of David and his beloved guide dog Jamie who had a less than relaxing flight home from their holiday...

David had been sent to the back of a plane with no room for his guide dog Jamie, asked to pay for premium seats and worst of all told he had to muzzle his guide dog at the airport even though he had flown multiple times without one.

More than three quarters of families say they make some form of financial sacrifice in order to buy Christmas presents according to recent research, but paying the rent or the mortgage shouldn't be one of them. Ursula Toner of Housing Rights tells us why it's vital that people don't jeopardise their home at Christmas time.

Plus, with just a few days to go till Christmas Day, there are probably more lights on in your house , more plugs and extension leads than usual, and all sorts of electrical presents under the tree, waiting to be charged and turned on. It's a great family time, and its important that everyone stays safe. Phil Buckle of Electrical Safety First says - like a puppy, Electrical Safety is for life, not just for Christmas.

Plus have you experienced poor mobile phone signal in the South Down area recently? Eileen tells us that she and her neighbours have had no mobile phone signal for weeks! We may have some good news for the good people of South Down…

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