Inflation rises, Exempt accommodation, Suits, Spring statement

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Inflation is now at its highest level for three decades - so we catch up with two listeners to find out what is costing them more. We have live reaction to the Chancellor's Spring Statement from Helen Barnard, Associate Director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Sarah Pennells, a Consumer Finance Specialist at pensions company Royal London. We hear about the rogue landlords who are gaming the housing benefits system, using a loophole in the law to claim enhanced payments for providing vulnerable tenants with care and support services, when they are not providing them. An investigation by this programme has found that councils trying to stop it, are being taken to Tribunal by some of these rogue landlords. We speak to Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Rough Sleeping Eddie Hughes MP about the problem. The ONS have taken a man's suit out of the basket of goods and have replaced it with a blazer. Are you still wearing suits or are you dressing down for work? Let us know [email protected] Presenter: Winifred Robinson Producer: Miriam Williamson