Shop-staff insider tips | Save v overpay mortgage | Child Benefit changes
The Martin Lewis Podcast
BBC
4.4 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s podcast, Martin reacts to news of the lowest rate of inflation in two years. Listeners with retail experience TELL US about their tips for getting better deals in shops and Martin has a message for parents claiming Child Benefit.
The big topic is all about whether it’s worth overpaying on your mortgage, or not. And as always, Nihal sits in the mastermind chair once again. How will he fare?
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. |
| 0:10.5 | I do wonder what that's going to be about. |
| 0:12.7 | Now, usually, much of it comes from my BBC Radio 5 live show with Nahal Arthaniaka, |
| 0:16.6 | but there's bonus money-saving tips just for you lucky, lucky podcast listeners too. |
| 0:22.2 | In today's pod, should you be saving or using that money to overpay your mortgage? |
| 0:28.6 | It's one of the biggest questions I get, so I thought I'd answer it. |
| 0:31.7 | Why the new inflation figures could change student loans? |
| 0:36.7 | Are you one of hundreds of thousands who should start claiming child benefit again, because |
| 0:41.7 | it's an all change there? |
| 0:43.4 | There's a corking tellers this week. |
| 0:46.2 | Shop staff reveal their insider secrets from how to buy curtains, yes, really, and it's a good |
| 0:51.4 | one, to decoding shop labels so you can see how much items will be reduced once they get in the sales. |
| 0:59.4 | Fascinating. |
| 1:00.5 | And then there's my tips, how to get a two-for-one pass for thousands of UK gardens for the next year. |
| 1:07.2 | It's the last chance-free £175 as a bank-switch bribe ends, in fact the only bank switch bribe, |
| 1:13.2 | and three pounds iMacs tickets. |
| 1:16.2 | And to finish, let's put a bit of spicer in a cash-aiser by making it my mastermind question for Nihal. |
| 1:23.4 | See, that'll be nicer. |
| 1:26.3 | Play the theme tune. |
| 1:45.0 | I got me. See, that'll be nicer. Play the theme tune to make sure everybody is It's Wednesday |
| 1:46.3 | It's 1 o'clock |
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