Car finance reclaim £1,000s? Married MoneySaving & haggling stories
The Martin Lewis Podcast
BBC
4.4 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, Martin breaks down the December inflation rise, and maps out how to potentially claim back motor finance. He also shares his advice on how to claim a bereavement payout if your partner died after 2001. Fans of the pod also ‘Tell Us’ their best UK haggling stories.
01’44 Inflation 09’57 Motor finance 19’38 Bereavement payments 27’58 Tell Us: Haggling successes 38’39 Mastermind 47’40 More Tell Us 52’55 Martin’s podcast tips
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the cunningly named The Martin Lewis Podcast. |
| 0:09.9 | I do wonder what that's going to be about. |
| 0:11.9 | Now, usually much of it comes from my BBC Radio 5 live show with Nahal Arthur Nyaka, |
| 0:16.1 | but there's bonus money-saving tips just for you lucky, lucky podcast listeners. |
| 0:22.0 | In today's pod, |
| 0:27.8 | Motor Finance Commission misselling, it's new. If you bought a car or van on finance before 2021, you may soon be due thousands of pounds back. December's inflation figures are out. Lots of people |
| 0:35.4 | navel-gazing about what that means. Forget December, that's in the past. |
| 0:39.3 | These figures have real-world impact. |
| 0:42.3 | It means we now know how much broadband and mobile prices will rise in April. |
| 0:47.3 | And it isn't good. |
| 0:48.3 | The next one is urgent and a need you to spread the word. |
| 0:52.3 | It's about backdated bereavement payments that can be worth |
| 0:55.1 | tens of thousands of pounds for unmarried parents where one passed away since 2001. Then water |
| 1:03.6 | saving. Yes, huge savings are possible on the forgotten utility. Some people can save a grand a year, |
| 1:09.2 | and that's the subject of my mastermind with |
| 1:11.0 | Nihau. I'll also be talking you through How to Save, of course. And, well, have I done enough |
| 1:15.7 | tips? No, let's do one more. I'll throw this one in, yeah. Tell us your best ever |
| 1:20.0 | haggling successes. Play the theme tune. I got meals, I got to pay, so I've been hearing all day inflation rates unexpectedly |
| 1:46.5 | ticked up to 4% in December that's from 3.9% in November okay what's going on here |
| 1:53.3 | martin look what's going on with inflation it's ticked up slightly from 3.9 to 4% more |
| 1:58.0 | interestingly the underlying inflation figure that gets rid of some of the more variable elements, |
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