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Money Box: Fraud and Food Prices

13/05/2023

Fraud and Food Prices

BBC Radio 4 - Money Box, Fraud and Food Prices

We discuss new figures showing the scale of fraud and ask what you can do about it.

Your inflation questions answered by the chief economist at the Office for National Statistics.

The banking trade body UK Finance says that every minute of 2022 thieves stole £2,300 from bank and credit card accounts.  In total they took £1.2 billion from nearly 3 million people.  These figures were released this week in its Annual Fraud Report.  We'll discuss the figures and get reaction from Arun Chauhan, a solicitor at Tenet Law, who specialises in fraud and financial crime.

There were new warnings about inflation this week.  The Bank of England said that headline rate would soon fall, though not quite so much as it had predicted earlier this year.  The Chief Economist at the Office for National Statistics answers your questions and talks about the new ONS comparison tool where you can check prices.  

As HMRC stops sending paper tax returns out to under 70s – what does this mean for the 3 million over 55s who don’t have a digital presence?

And how to make sure you get a new Cost of Living payment if you're entitled to it.

Presenter: Paul Lewis
Reporter: Dan Whitworth
Researchers:  Eimear Devlin and Jo Krasner
Editor: Jess Quayle

(First broadcast 12pm, Saturday 13th May 2023)

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