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You and Yours: Rail tickets, Tenants on benefits, Supermarket allergens

07/11/2018

Rail tickets, Tenants on benefits, Supermarket allergens

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Rail tickets, Tenants on benefits, Supermarket allergens

The rail ticketing system is to be made simpler and fairer - but how will it look?

How a simpler rail ticket system might work, why it's so much harder to find a rented home if you claim benefits, and the supermarkets not labelling allergens in their fresh baking

Research for You & Yours suggests most people who buy rail tickets are unaware that they can save money by 'splitting' their ticket.  As a consultation into rail ticketing ends, a YouGov survey commissioned by this programme has found that very few people use 'split ticketing'.  This is when a traveller buys separate tickets for different legs of their journey, instead of buying a single ticket for the whole trip.  It can be much cheaper.  The Rail Delivery Group which represents train companies tells us how it plans to make ticketing simpler and fairer. 

Landlords who let flats or houses to people who claim benefits often face higher costs to insure their properties. Research for You & Yours suggests premiums typically increase by around 30% if a tenant is on benefits.  Landlords also often face restrictions from their mortgage lenders.  We examine how financial organisations can put landlords off letting to benefit claimants. 

A BBC investigation finds some of the UK's major supermarkets are failing to identify potentially lethal allergens in their fresh bakery products. Undercover journalists from Watchdog Live asked supermarket staff if unlabelled products contained allergens.  They found that some were unaware that they contained allergens such as nuts and milk. 

Presented by Winifred Robinson
Produced by Natalie Donovan

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