Car finance Mis-selling: what you need do | Top joint bank accounts | Economic Abuse the signs
The Martin Lewis Podcast
BBC
4.4 • 929 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s podcast Martin Lewis gives an update on the car finance mis-selling story. He questions such as: ‘what counts as mis-selling?’ ‘How do you know if you were mis-sold?’ ‘How much will be paid out?’ ‘How can you find old agreements?’, ‘What if you’ve complained and not contacted?’ And so much more.
We also look at couples’ finances – in Tell Us this week we talk through how you and your partner work on your money together. Martin runs through the top joint accounts and the rules on joint accounts if something goes wrong. Plus how joint accounts can be misused as a form of domestic abuse… he talks to the charity Surviving Economic Abuse about that.
Plus news on stamp prices, mortgages, student finance and Martin’s reaction to the news that some customers using Bank of Scotland, Lloyds and Halifax apps have been able to see other users' transactions on their accounts.
If you want to ask Martin a question, you now can! His Question Time podcast lets you ask Martin absolutely anything and everything (within reason!) – so if you’ve always wanted to know what colour his eyes are, what he's planning to do in his eventual retirement, or have a very complicated question about your personal finances, email it to MartinLewisPodcast@bbc.co.uk.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:08.5 | Well, I mean, this is huge and it is mainstream. |
| 0:11.4 | This is not some minor niche thing. |
| 0:12.9 | Do what you can, and if you can't, you'll have to crush your fingers and hope they've got the details. |
| 0:16.4 | Which is clearly a breach of data privacy. |
| 0:18.3 | It is an issue and it is going to play out this one. |
| 0:20.4 | Yes, I am absolutely pleased. |
| 0:22.4 | So it is absolutely something I welcome. |
| 0:25.8 | Hello, I'm Martin Lewis and this is the comingly named The Martin Lewis Podcast. |
| 0:31.2 | I didn't wonder what that's going to be about. |
| 0:33.0 | Usually much of it comes from my BBC Radio 5 live show with Adrian Childs, |
| 0:36.8 | but there's also bonus money |
| 0:38.0 | saving tips just for you lucky, lucky podcast listeners. In today's pod, car finance misselling, |
| 0:44.7 | we now know that the redress scheme will be announced at the end of this month and you've sent |
| 0:50.0 | loads of questions in from what counts as mis, to how do you know if you were |
| 0:54.4 | missold, how much will you be paid out, finding old agreements, what if you've complained |
| 0:58.7 | and not being contacted in return, and so much more. We'll go through all of them in detail. |
| 1:04.9 | Then on to couples finances based on this week's tell us. We'll talk through how you work |
| 1:10.1 | money together. I'll run through |
| 1:11.9 | the top joint accounts and the rules on joint accounts if there's an issue between you. Plus, sadly, |
| 1:16.5 | joint accounts can be misused as a form of domestic abuse. So we'll be talking to the charity's |
| 1:21.7 | surviving economic abuse about how you spot the signs and what to do about it. Plus two, |
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