Make £100s in time for Christmas, and state pension boosting
The Martin Lewis Podcast
BBC
4.4 • 929 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
With around 100 days until Christmas, Martin looks at the financial opportunities to make some more money to pay for it – and how to cut costs. And with the pensions 'triple lock' in the news again we look at how to boost your state pension – more than 800,000 people could be missing out on extra pension credits. Plus you ‘tell us’ the strangest things you found left behind, when you moved in to a new home.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the comingly named The Martin Lewis Podcast. |
| 0:09.8 | I do wonder what that's going to be about. |
| 0:11.6 | Usually much of it comes from my BBC Radio 5 live show with Nahal Arthaniaka, but there's |
| 0:16.6 | bonus money-saving tips too just for you lucky, lucky podcast listeners. |
| 0:21.3 | In today's pod, it's nearly 100 days to Christmas, can you believe it? |
| 0:25.7 | How to grab over £300 of free cash to help boost your festive coffers. |
| 0:30.8 | Plus tips on agreeing with friends to ban unnecessary Christmas presents |
| 0:35.3 | and loads more early festive preparation. Not early celebration. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm not into that. Next, there's much talk about the pension triple lock, but there are over |
| 0:46.0 | 800,000 over 67s missing out on a crucial boost to the state pension and potentially millions |
| 0:54.1 | more over 45s, who may be able |
| 0:56.8 | to add tens of thousands of pounds to their retirement cash, if you act now. |
| 1:02.3 | Our tell us is about what you've discovered when you move into a property, some incredible |
| 1:07.1 | stuff there, including a hidden cave. |
| 1:09.7 | I've got cheaper Disney plus streaming for you and |
| 1:12.5 | 13% cheaper electricity bills and the most complex money mastermind answer ever. So will you get it |
| 1:20.4 | right? Play the theme tune, PPS. |
| 1:25.8 | I got meals |
| 1:27.7 | I got to pay |
| 1:29.5 | So I'm just say, quite rugged. |
| 1:47.3 | Can we talk about, can we talk about this just a moment? |
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