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You and Yours: Gambling, Personal Independence Payments and Homes For a Pound

Gambling: Pleasurable or dangerous?

14/02/2018

Gambling, Personal Independence Payments and Homes For a Pound

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Gambling, Personal Independence Payments and Homes For a Pound

Online gambling and how an experiment in selling off homes for £1 has worked out.

How online gamblers are suckered in to spend more. Another damning report on disability benefit assessments. Plus Liverpool's experiment with selling homes for £1.

The Gambling Commission issues new guidance today for gambling companies who want to make customers VIPs. We hear from a gambler who was made a VIP without an affordability check, and ran up debts of £40,000.

MPs hear record levels of evidence damning the assessment system for Personal Independence Payments. We speak to the man who's already carried out two inquiries for the government and ask him why nothing seems to change.

Why dentists are fed up to the back teeth with late payments from Capita.

And the rundown homes sold for £1 five years ago. What are they like now?

Presenter: Winifred Robinson
Producer: Olive Clancy.

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