Car insurance up 41% on average, home insurance too, how to beat the hikes
The Martin Lewis Podcast
BBC
4.4 • 929 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Martin talking about insurance and his advice on what to do about a cost we know is climbing at the moment. He has tips on how to get the best deals on your car and home insurance renewals. He also looks at financial education in schools.
01:21 Nihal’s Will 03:04 Financial education in schools 09:05 Cost of Insurance 26:28 Life in you thirties 41:51 Mastermind 48:37 Podcast Tips
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.1 | Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the cunningly named The Martin Lewis Podcast. |
| 0:09.7 | I do wonder what that's going to be about. |
| 0:12.0 | Now, usually much of it comes from my BBC Radio 5 live show with Nahal, Arthur Nyaka. |
| 0:16.2 | But there's bonus money-saving tips just for you, lucky, lucky podcast listeners. |
| 0:21.4 | In today's part, the big subject, huge rises to car and home insurance renewals |
| 0:27.3 | causing bills shock across the nation. Have you had your renewal in? How much has it gone up by? |
| 0:33.1 | I'll be showing you how you can fight back and try and keep prices down. |
| 0:37.2 | We'll also be talking what's |
| 0:38.5 | really needed to make sure there's proper financial education in schools, and then in my tips, |
| 0:43.3 | how to get free chips, yes, at KFC and McDonald's, and a free fiver to spend at HobbyCraft. Play the |
| 0:50.6 | theme tune PPS. |
| 0:57.0 | I got meals. I got to pay. |
| 1:16.2 | And one of those mouths is feeding feeding himself currently, and he's just taken down a few gulps because this is how busy is. |
| 1:17.8 | He doesn't even get time to eat, Martin Lewis, but he's back. |
| 1:21.7 | And he's there. |
| 1:22.9 | Stop the music. |
| 1:24.1 | Stop the music. |
| 1:25.9 | I want to read to you a tweet on the back of last week's show. |
| 1:30.1 | And you will know already what it is about. |
| 1:32.0 | Oh no. |
| 1:33.4 | Yeah, because the pressure is not going to let up on this, Nihal Athenaka. |
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