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🗓️ 10 July 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Martin Lewis explains how you can claim back the money if you have accidentally overpaid your student loan.
Martin also looks at the list of the top 20 celebs used by scammers and Tell Us this week is all about if you charge your adult children rent for living in the family home.
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
0:04.8 | Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the comingly named the Martin Lewis podcast. |
0:09.5 | I do wonder what that's going to be about. |
0:11.7 | Usually much of it comes from my BBC Radio 5 live show, but this week with Wimbledon on, |
0:16.4 | it's a podcast-only special for you to enjoy. |
0:19.9 | In today's pod, the big subject, are you one of at least |
0:23.8 | four million university leavers and graduates who've unwittingly overpaid your student loan |
0:30.0 | and can reclaim hundreds of pounds back? Which public figures are the scammers' favourites? |
0:37.1 | Is it Elon Musk, Taylor Swift, Adele or someone else? |
0:41.6 | And why you need to be careful with any online ads with them and many other celebs in them? |
0:48.4 | Back to student finance. |
0:50.3 | If you can afford to, should you voluntarily overpay the student loan? |
0:55.0 | Lots of people asking me that. |
0:56.4 | I'll do my best to answer in all different scenarios. |
1:00.0 | And this week's tell us, do you charge your adult children rent when they live in the family home? |
1:06.4 | And if you do, how much? |
1:08.7 | Play the theme tune. |
1:47.8 | I got meals. you do. How much? Play the theme tune. Hello, welcome to the show. Hello, welcome to the show. Now, before I get into the meet, which is all about the graduates and university levers whether you should overpay your student loan. And if you have overpaid, have you overpaid too much? And can you reclaim the cash? I want to talk to you briefly about scams, specifically online adverts featuring celebrities and public figures because my team and I have done |
1:54.3 | exclusive analysis of data from action fraud which reveals which celebrities and public figures are used by scammers most. |
2:04.9 | Now, this is for data reported to it in 2022 and 2023. The actual number of scams reported are |
2:11.3 | likely to be a drop in the ocean, as many people don't report scams to the police. You should |
2:15.9 | always report them to Action Fraud, even though actually it's not that helpful,. You should always report them to action fraud, |
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