Find old pensions worth £10,000s!

The Martin Lewis Podcast

BBC

Business

4.2 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

With £31 billion in lost or unclaimed pensions in the UK, Martin tells you how to find your old pensions - which could be worth £10,000s! Plus, Martin’s top holiday money need-to-knows to help you stop paying when you spend abroad and get the most bang for your (Vietnamese) dong. And you tell us the worst financial advice you were given by your parents and grandparents.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the cunningly named The Martin Lewis Podcast.
0:09.8	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 Adrian Charles,
0:16.0	but don't worry, there's bonus money saving tips and extras just for you,
0:20.6	lucky, lucky podcast listeners.
0:22.5	I did the intro so well in today's live show.
0:26.0	I think we should just jump straight there.
0:28.2	Play the theme tune.
0:29.7	I got meals.
0:31.9	I got to pay.
0:33.7	Someone going to work for a world.
0:36.6	I got a mouth. I got the world. I got a mouth.
0:39.5	I got to feed.
0:41.3	So I'm going to make sure everybody is.
0:45.3	Martin Lewis, what have you got for us, Martin?
0:47.9	We have a smorgas board of savings for you today.
0:50.4	We're going to be starting off with the fact there's over 30 billion pounds of money in lost pensions. Average 10,000 pounds a person. So do you have an old and lost pension that
1:00.2	you can track down and get oodles back? The big subject, though, today is a holiday money Q&A. Summer
1:07.0	is approaching millions of people will be going abroad. So how do you get the most buck for your bang?
1:12.9	How do you stop paying to pay when you go out abroad?
1:16.2	How do you max out your dollars, your euros, your ringets, your colons or your dong?
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 7 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.