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You and Yours: Debt Breaks; OnlyFans, Online Learning

03/05/2021

Debt Breaks; OnlyFans, Online Learning

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Debt Breaks; OnlyFans, Online Learning

People in debt will now get a 60-day breathing space if they are seeking debt advice.

People in debt will get a breathing space. Anyone in debt who approaches any debt advice service, will get 60-days' grace with interest payments and late payment fees  put on hold.

It's estimated that 14 million people have taken a hit to their incomes since March last year. 11 million are struggling to pay essential bills. From the 4th of May people in debt will get a breathing space. Anyone in debt who approaches any debt advice service, will get 60 days grace with interest payments and late payment fees  put on hold. 

OnlyFans, the platform for sex workers and celebrities to sell subscription content, has boomed during the pandemic. Transactions have risen seven-fold to £1.7bn. A new report by VoiceBox, a social enterprise that focus on hearing from young people, has been looking at the financial opportunities and harms that the platform has created.

A garden is one thing that buyers seem to want more than anything in the current housing market boom. Surveys suggest that more outside space is a big priority because we've spent so much time cooped up at home this past year. We speak to estate agents Savills and Stephen Anderton, gardening writer for The Times about to make the most of your first garden.

For some families the lockdown has brought relief from isolation. For those who are often stuck at home, the rise in online learning and resources has been a major breakthrough – they want it to continue as restrictions begin to ease. We hear from some families who have children with profound and multiple learning difficulties about how their lives have changed in the past 12 months.  

While many high street chains and fashion brands still facing an uncertain future, demand for luxury goods like Louis Vuitton handbangs and Dior sunglasses is bouncing back from the Covid-19 slump. The growth in sales is being largely driven by big-spending, designer-obsessed consumers in the Far East and America. So will luxury brands make a comeback in the UK this summer?

Presenter: Winifred Robinson
Producer: Jay Unger

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