Take-up of a scheme allowing people to delay selling their houses to pay care home fees exposes a ‘postcode lottery’, according to research by a law firm. A selective survey of 10 local authorities reveals that the rate of deferred payment agreements among self-funded care home residents ‘varies wildly’ from 0.9 per cent in East … Read more
Lockdown roads could become a ‘dangerous postcode lottery’ for law-abiding drivers and other road users, warns Nick Freeeman Roads could become a ‘dangerous postcode lottery’ for drivers during lockdown after it was revealed that some police forces are going easy on speeders due to mounting workloads. A driver claimed to have receiving a letter from … Read more
An interactive map which reveals coronavirus deaths by postcode shows that people living in the poorest parts of England and Wales are dying at more than double the rate of those in affluent areas. The map, included in the latest Office for National Statistics report, found that the most deprived regions suffered 55 deaths per 100,000 … Read more
Virus grants are postcode lottery for small firms with some councils paying just one in ten eligible companies By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 22 April 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 22 April 2020 Desperate firms scrambling for emergency grants to survive the pandemic face a ‘postcode lottery’, with some councils … Read more