Haggling help, LISAs, free cash for teens? And more…

The Martin Lewis Podcast

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4.2 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The Martin Lewis Podcast is here. Founder of Money Saving Expert, Martin Lewis answers your financial questions. Elsewhere in the podcast, you Tell Us your best haggle. How much did you save, and what are your top haggling tips? Nihal takes on Martin’s Money Mastermind and is quizzed on Child Trust Funds.

Martin confirms 14% broadband and mobile price hikes due April. He warns that for those in contract there's little you can do, except take note when that contract ends, and act then. But adds million of people are out of contract and urges them to ditch and switch or haggle.

This week’s episode has all the information below will help you do that. Plus, Martin demands reforms to rules and thresholds linked to Lifetime ISAs (LISAs) as he warns they could be costing first-time buyers.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Tony Bellew and I am angry.
0:04.0	As I can't take it out on people in the ring anymore, I'm going toe to toe with some special guests to find out what makes them angry and more importantly, how they deal with it.
0:14.1	People think that, oh, you've got a boss life. You get to do what you love. Don't see the dark side of things.
0:19.9	We're back for season three,
0:21.3	and this time I'll be chatting to the likes of Michael B. Jordan,
0:24.6	Paddy, Hemlet, Duncan Ferguson, and Bogsy Malone.
0:27.7	I didn't feel I should have been in prison.
0:29.3	I wish the referee had given a red card at the time
0:31.0	because we'll be talking about it just now.
0:32.7	Tony Bellew is angry.
0:34.9	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:41.6	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:46.1	Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the cunningly named The Martin Lewis Podcast.
0:48.5	I do wonder what that's all going to be about.
0:53.2	Usually much of it comes from my BBC Radio 5 live show with Nihal Arthur Nyaka,
0:54.3	and you'll hear the main subjects there in a moment. But we do have a few bonus extras thrown in just on the pod, such as
0:59.6	free cash from switching banks, 200 quid, new top savings and lifetime ISA help. So play the theme
1:05.9	tune, PPI. That's podcast producer Isabel, if you're a first time listener.
1:28.9	What are we going to be talking about today, Martin?
1:30.8	Okay, lots of big stuff to talk about.
1:32.5	I mentioned it might happen last week.
1:37.2	Well, it's happened, whether it's BT or EE or PlusNet or Talk Talk.
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