6mth warning! For each £825 or less you pay you could gain £5,400+ by boosting your National Insurance years.
The Martin Lewis Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 789 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s podcast Martin explains how you can buy voluntary National Insurance years to boost your state pension. Tell Us is about what do you have in your house that you haven’t used in the last year? Later in the pod, Martin shares his latest money-saving tips and Adrian attempts another tricky Mastermind question.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:05.1 | Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the comingly named The Martin Lewis Podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | I do wonder what that's all going to be about. |
| 0:12.1 | Now, usually much of it comes from my BBC Radio 5 live show with Adrian Charles, but there's |
| 0:16.3 | bonus money-saving tips just for you lucky, lucky podcast listeners. |
| 0:20.1 | Now, normally at this point, I say in today's pod, and I run through a menu. |
| 0:24.7 | But I was on fire when I was doing it on Five Live, and I don't think I can do it any better. |
| 0:28.7 | So at this point, I'm just going to put my feet up and get podcast producer Simon to play that for you. |
| 0:34.1 | Play it, Simon. |
| 0:37.5 | I got meals. I just love that music. |
| 0:39.9 | I got that music and I love it, especially because it it especially because it means Martin Lewis is with us. |
| 0:59.1 | Martin, what have you got for us today? |
| 1:00.7 | Well, it's a big one today. |
| 1:01.7 | This is your six-month warning. |
| 1:04.0 | For each £825 or less, you pay to buy national insurance years. |
| 1:09.1 | Many can gain £5,400 or more. |
| 1:13.5 | But much of what you can do closes next April. |
| 1:17.9 | This is the most lucrative thing many people under age 73 can do. |
| 1:22.3 | Some gain literally tens of thousands of pounds. |
| 1:25.7 | The deadline may be half a year away, but the process is |
| 1:29.1 | not quick, so you need to start now. Plus, in the tellers, what have you got in your house |
| 1:35.3 | that you haven't used since last Christmas and should you flog it? And the mastermind this week, |
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