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Gambling, Personal Independence Payments and Homes For a Pound

How online gamblers are suckered in to spend more. Another damning report on disability benefit assessments. Plus Liverpool's experiment with selling homes for 拢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 拢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 拢1 five years ago. What are they like now?

Presenter: Winifred Robinson
Producer: Olive Clancy.

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45 minutes

Chapters

  • VIP Gambling

    The gambling regulator today issues new rules about making gamblers VIPs

    Duration: 09:20

  • Amateur Dramatic

    Cast of a play in Brentwood in Essex are expected to PAY to take part

    Duration: 05:23

  • Personal Independence Payments

    The select committee for work and pensions call on government to improve PIP assessments

    Duration: 06:56

  • Homes For a Pound

    Buyers promised to spent at least 拢40,000 on repairs and live in the house for 5 years

    Duration: 07:02

  • Romance Tips

    Survey by Independent Age found that half of all 65+ say they're not getting enough sex

    Duration: 03:02

  • British Dental Association VS Capita

    TheBDA calls on the government to take NHS primary care support services away from Capita

    Duration: 06:11

Broadcast

  • Wed 14 Feb 2018 12:15

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