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🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Martin Lewis explains the childcare help you are entitled to with nearly a million parents paying for childcare, whether just in the summer or all year round, and missing out on thousands of pounds of help.
This weeks Tell Us: Your questions on if savings boost your credit score? Is it time to fix energy? Should you pay off your mortgage or save? and lots more.
It's our first ever Mastermind Head to Head, Gethin Jones takes on John Robins in a Consumer Rights tester.
Plus we clear up what the two child benefit cap is and more importantly, isn’t.
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
0:04.9 | Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the cunningly named The Martin Lewis Podcast. |
0:10.4 | I do wonder what that's going to be about. |
0:13.1 | Now, usually much of it comes from my BBC Radio 5 live show, today presented by Gathing Jones, |
0:18.0 | but don't worry, there's lots of extra bonus money-saving bits |
0:22.4 | just for you lucky, lucky podcast listeners. In today's part, nearly a million parents paying |
0:29.5 | for childcare, whether that's just in the summer, and many of you are, or all year round, |
0:34.4 | on missing out on thousands of pounds of help. |
0:42.5 | Our big subject today is actually the tellers, because I wanted to know what are your burning questions before I take a break for the summer, and they have flooded in. I'll be asked |
0:47.6 | and answering on, can savings boost your credit score? Is it time to fix energy? Should you pay off your mortgage or save? |
0:55.9 | Are cash pack cards better than stoozing using 0% interest cards? Is a pension or an ISA better |
1:01.8 | for long-term savings for children? And T.J. wanted to know how to locate the money locked |
1:06.1 | in his late wife's help to buy IA. Plus, lots more. |
1:13.4 | We've got our first ever mastermind head to head today. |
1:18.0 | Gething takes on John Robbins in a consumer rights serious tester. |
1:25.3 | Plus, we clear up what the two child benefit cap is and more importantly, isn't. |
1:28.3 | Play the theme tune. There's a lot to get through. |
1:33.1 | I got meals. |
1:34.8 | I got to pay. |
1:37.7 | So I'm going to work for a word. |
1:42.4 | I got to feed. |
1:46.2 | So I'm going to make sure everybody eats. |
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