What the Budget really means for you & Clive Myrie plays Martin’s Mastermind
The Martin Lewis Podcast
BBC
4.4 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In a shorter episode this week, Martin reacts to the budget from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt – which included a campaign win on Child Benefit, and cuts to National Insurance.
And there’s a surprise guest in the Martin’s Mastermind chair.
1’22 – National Insurance Cut 5’57 – Child Benefit 10’32 - Scrapping the fee on debt relief orders 11’56 - Increase in the time you can pay back a Universal Credit budgeting advance loan 14’29 – Lifetime ISAs 16’09 – Mastermind 23’51 – What Martin didn’t get to in the podcast
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. |
| 0:09.3 | I do wonder what that's going to be about. |
| 0:11.4 | Now, usually much of it comes from my BBC Radio 5 live show with Nahal Arthur Nyaka. |
| 0:15.3 | But today's pod, well, it still comes from there, but it's a little different and a bit shorter. |
| 0:19.5 | It's a speedy reaction to the budget from the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt. |
| 0:24.6 | Plus, and I wasn't expecting this, money mastermind with Clive Myrie. |
| 0:30.6 | So we're going to be talking about national insurance, the changes to child benefit, |
| 0:35.5 | the lack of changes to the lifetime ISER, and a whole lot more. |
| 0:39.6 | And then tomorrow, we're going to record some extra bits and expand the pod a little bit. |
| 0:43.8 | Yes, our own little bit of pod inflation. |
| 0:46.5 | Play the theme to you. Now I'm going to make so I'm going to work for him. |
| 0:57.0 | I got to feed. |
| 0:59.0 | I got to feed. |
| 1:01.0 | So I'm going to make sure everybody eats. |
| 1:05.0 | Now let's speak to Martin Lewis. |
| 1:08.0 | Of course, what would a Wednesday be if I didn't get a chance to speak to him? |
| 1:12.0 | But thankfully, this time he won't be humiliating me. |
| 1:14.4 | We're not giving him an opportunity to do that today. |
| 1:16.7 | It's great to have you on. |
| 1:18.0 | I know that you've been tweeting relentlessly through that hour that the Chancellor stood up. |
| 1:23.0 | Let's start with national insurance cut and your reaction to that, please, Martin. |
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