Cut energy bills, fix savings and free Greggs
The Martin Lewis Podcast
BBC
4.4 • 929 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Martin is back with a bumper episode. Find out the savings account you need to know about, why even though energy prices are lower some people could be paying more this winter and also the action that you need to take this weekend to keep your bills as low as possible. Plus how you could be paid to insure your phone, free Greggs and Martin finds out the financial nuggets that older people would love to tell their younger, working selves. Don’t miss it!
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07:51 Best savings rates 11:31 Martin’s energy advice 24:34 Problems with energy meters 30:50 What people who’ve retired wish they’d known… 1:00:10 Free Greggs!
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:09.8 | I do wonder what that's all going to be about. |
| 0:12.0 | Now, usually much of it comes from my BBC Radio 5 live show with Nahal Arthur Naika, |
| 0:16.2 | but there's also bonus money-saving tips just for you lucky, lucky podcast listeners too. In today's pod, |
| 0:23.0 | the big story, it's meter reading week as the energy price cap is falling 7% on Sunday. So we'll |
| 0:30.4 | be talking everything energy, taking loads of your questions from standing charges to it's |
| 0:36.3 | now the time to fix. I'll also be talking about why |
| 0:39.5 | if you've got savings, you should really be considering opening a fixed rate account right now, |
| 0:45.8 | even if you're not going to put money in it. I've also got tips so you can get a free Gregs, |
| 0:50.4 | why you need to be buying stamps urgently, and how to get hundreds of pounds of free travel, mobile |
| 0:55.9 | and breakdown insurance. |
| 0:58.0 | And will Nihal get |
| 0:59.8 | today's credit scoring mastermind |
| 1:01.8 | right? Probably not, if you've |
| 1:03.8 | listened to the show before. Enough of the trail. |
| 1:06.4 | Play the theme tune, PPS. |
| 1:10.8 | I got meals. I got pay. the theme tune PPS. |
| 1:25.1 | It's time for Martin Lewis. Martin, nice to see you. What are we going to be looking at today, my friend? |
| 1:27.8 | Well, it's meter reading week. It's come back again. We get the big energy price changes coming this Sunday. |
| 1:30.9 | So who needs to be reading their meter? |
| 1:32.5 | Well, quite a lot of people as it happens. |
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