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Energy Prices, Housing Rights, Student Tax, Pensioners Parliament

Recent gas price rises with Utilities Regulator John French, student tax refunds with Adrian Huston, student accommodation with Housing Rights, Pensioners Parliament with Age NI.

With the news this week of significant gas price hikes in The Ten Towns Network area, Utility Regulator John French is live to discuss the effect this will have on the average annual household gas bill.

Student tax and accommodation; Mary Bingham of Housing Rights explores one listener's letting agent query, and shares tips for students when signing the lease on rented accommodation. Tax expert Adrian Huston, looks at student tax refunds, claiming tax back from the Irish Revenue, and who is eligible.

With the Chancellor Rishiu Sunak this week breaking the β€˜Triple lock’ promise on State Pension increases, meaning it will be suspended for one year, and the rise will be 2.5%, lecturer in Social Policy at the Ulster University Goretti Horgan, explains the background to the introduction of the Triple Lock over a decade ago.

The Pensioners Parliament returns on the 17th of September, taking place this year in the NI Assembly Chamber at Stormont. Eithne Gilligan of Age NI looks at what the Parliament will discuss and asks, are we well prepared in Northern Ireland for an aging population?

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