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Money Box: MBL: Single Parents

03/06/2020

MBL: Single Parents

BBC Radio 4 - Money Box, MBL: Single Parents

Single parents talk about the financial challenges they face due to coronavirus.

Louise Cooper and guests talk to single parents about the financial challenges brought about by coronavirus and experts are on hand to offer advice and answer questions.

There are nearly three million single parent families in the UK, which is 15% of all families. Their finances are often tight and they face a particularly high risk of poverty compared with other households.

Louise Cooper and guests talk to single parents about the financial challenges brought about by coronavirus and we have experts on hand to offer advice and answer questions.

Panel:

Victoria Benson, CEO of Gingerbread, the charity for single parent families.
Lee Healey, founder of Income Max, an organisation that helps maximise family incomes through a service that guides access to unclaimed benefits

Email your experiences and questions to moneybox@bbc.co.uk

Presenter: Louise Cooper
Producers: Ben Carter and Eleanor Layhe
Editor: Emma Rippon

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