ISAs, ISAs, baby... cheap flights and pensions boost

The Martin Lewis Podcast

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4.2 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The Martin Lewis Podcast is here. Founder of Money Saving Expert, Martin Lewis answers your ISA questions. Interest rates are up, so ISAs are back for many, although you need to sort them by 5 April or sooner. Martin shares his key ISA need-to-knows.

Elsewhere in the podcast, you Tell Us what’s the oldest, working object you have in your home that you never use. Plus, when did you last use it? And how much are a home's unused items worth, in total?

Nihal takes on Martin’s Money Mastermind, and this week is quizzed on how much of your private or company pension you are allowed to leave to your spouse in your will.

Plus Martin’s podcast-exclusive tips – including how to get cheap EasyJet flights and an update on ‘How to Turn £800 into £5,500’. The government has now extended the deadline to buy back old National Insurance years until 31 July. If you're age 45 – 70, you may be able to boost your state pension by £1,000s.

Producer: Isabelle Tudor

Transcript

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0:00.0	Please, I beg you in the name of God. I need some assistance from you.
0:04.8	Who is worthy of our trust?
0:08.2	I just thought this is very, very shady, and there's something definitely wrong about this.
0:13.9	He didn't believe me. I say, well, I'm not a schemer. I'm not a bad person.
0:18.3	Join me, Matthew Side, for the latest season of my BBC Radio 4 podcast, Sideways.
0:25.1	Seven new stories of seeing the world differently and the ideas that shape our lives.
0:31.0	I need to figure out a way to really compensate him,
0:33.5	or else I'm going to be the scammer that I accused him of being.
0:36.8	Sideways on BBC Sounds.
0:42.9	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:46.4	Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the cunningly named the Martin Lewis podcast.
0:51.6	I do wonder what that's going to be about.
0:54.0	Usually, much of it comes from
0:55.3	my BBC Radio 5 live show with Nahal Arthur Naika. But there's bonus money saving tips just for
1:00.8	you lucky, lucky podcast listeners. This week, we'll be including a warning for savers. You've only a month
1:07.1	left to use your cash-isor allowance, or you lose it. First-time buyers, the
1:12.0	icers that you can get to give you a 25% boost towards your deposit savings. Questions on
1:19.0	energy bills, and I'll try and answer them too, and will the government follow through with
1:23.0	its plans to charge us 20% more in April? An important update there. An urgent cheap flight trick
1:29.5	and big change for those looking to buy extra years for their state pension. I think we got
1:35.0	through that. Play the theme tune, PPI. Martin, what we're talking about today.
1:58.1	Martin, what we'll be talking about today?
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