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National Insurance Cut and Fraud Refunds

How will a new set of regulations, designed to help victims of fraud, work?

National Insurance will be cut for millions workers from today. It'll be cut from 12% to 10% - the lowest main rate for more than twenty years. The government says this cut will save an employee on average earnings around 拢450 a year. However, some experts including the Office for Budget Responsibility say that gain is far less than the cost of freezing personal tax allowances from 2021 while wages rose. What will it mean for you?

A new set of regulations designed to help victims of fraud should see up to 90% of them get the money stolen from them refunded by their banks. That's according to Chris Hemsley, who runs the Payment Systems Regulator. He says he hopes the change will encourage the industry to do even more to stop fraud from happening in the first place.

HM Revenue and Customs says it will only take what it calls 'priority calls' on its Self Assessment helpline ahead of the 31st January tax deadline - sending everyone else to its online services. How will that work in practice?

And what parents of small children need to do to apply for the new 15 hours of free childcare.

Presenter: Paul Lewis
Reporters: Dan Whitworth, Sandra Hardial and Eimear Devlin
Editor: Jess Quayle

(First broadcast 12pm Saturday 6th January 2024)

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