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Exploring gambler attitudes towards Financial Vulnerability and Financial Risk Check proposals

The Gambling Commission’s report on the attitudes and opinions of online gamblers regarding the proposals for financial vulnerability and financial risk checks.

Published
1 May 2024

Last updated
23 May 2025 - Changes

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  1. Contents
  2. Annex: Financial risk stimulus pack
  3. 6 - What the press says about the financial checks

6 - What the press says about the financial checks

Objections to the new financial checks in the racing press

Headlines from the articles shown to gamblers:

Punters could face affordability checks every six months under new proposals triggered by white paper (opens in new tab)

MP urges racing to make its case against ‘crippling’ Gambling Commission proposals (opens in new tab)

I don’t need to be told how much I can bet (the blog is no longer available)

‘I don’t think they truly understand a lot of betting’ - concerns raised over Gambling Commission consultation (opens in new tab)

The Gambling commission is waging a war on punters, and this is our last chance to fight back (opens in new tab)

Arguments in the press that changes have been needed much sooner and that thresholds should be lower

Headlines from the articles shown to gamblers:

Gambling addicts will die because of delay to reforms, government warned (opens in new tab)

Gambling white paper not perfect, but a tipping point (opens in new tab)

I run the NHS gambling clinics. The white paper doesn’t go nearly far enough (opens in new tab)

‘There will be more people dying’: mother whose daughter took own life criticises gambling white paper (opens in new tab)

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