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Martin's alert for ALL disabled or ill pensioners It's NOT MEANS-TESTED - if you or a loved one needs help with daily living, check NOW In December, I wrote an alert to all pensioners, after our report with Policy in Practice identified up to 1.1m pensioners were missing out on £3,500+ a year because they don't claim Attendance Allowance (a payment to help cover costs of pensioners who need someone to 'attend to' them). It's the first time we've covered this in detail on MSE, and it coincided with launching our new Attendance Allowance (AA) guide. I'm delighted to say the results are starting to come in... Philip recently emailed: "Dear Martin & all at MSE, I'm not sure if being ill enough to qualify for Attendance Allowance can be classed as success, but £68 each week certainly does not come amiss! Despite struggling on for 8 months, it never occurred to my wife and I that she might qualify for help until reading about it on MSE. We applied mid Dec and received positive notification today. Thank you - you have made our lives just a little bit easier in difficult times."
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New Martin vid. Are house prices, mortgage rates and rents set to rise or fall? Watch Martin's What happens next quick video. Secret Sales code: extra 20% off reduced Nike, Gymshark, Converse & more, eg, £90 puffer jacket £26. MSE Blagged. High-street & designer stock at reduced prices. 4,000 codes available. Secret Sales News. English student living loans to rise just 2.5% - a real-terms cut, warns Martin. See Student update. 10-piece beauty dupes set £35 (£107 bought separately) from 'I Am Proud'. MSE Blagged. Only 3,000. This new-ish brand, much hyped on TikTok, is from the owners of Ciaté and Lottie London. We've got it to put together a set of 'beauty dupes' (mimicking expensive brands), eg, its vitamin C serum vs £100 Sunday Riley's. I Am Proud Urgent - 9 days left. Unmarried with kids & partner died since 2001? Claim up to £40,000 backdated bereavement help. Your posted application form needs to arrive by 8 Feb, so time's running out. See Martin's urgent bereavement support briefing. Credit score mythbusting & tricks to boost it. The Martin Lewis Money Show Live, ITV 8pm tonight (Tue). Over to Martin: "If you're looking to get a mortgage, mobile phone, energy direct debit, a credit card, or any form of lending to cut costs, you may need a good credit history. Yet there are huge myths and misunderstandings about how credit scoring works and what you can do. In this show I'll decode it for you. Got a question? Tweet using #MartinLewis or email the team at martinlewis@itv.com. Do watch (or catch up via ITVX)." |
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Breakdown cover: Do you pay the AA or RAC £100s/yr? With so many bigger bills out there to sort each year, it's easy to understand why lots of people let their breakdown cover auto-renew each year. Yet that may mean you're paying £100s over the odds. Full help and lots more savings options are in our Slash breakdown costs guide, but here's a basic 1-2-3...
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Martin's pod: Don't pay more than £7/mth for your mobile, salespeople's secret tips & more... All in the new The Martin Lewis Podcast. Listen via BBC Sounds, Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you like to get your Martin fix. £37 Ted Baker prescription specs (normally £135). MSE Blagged. Via SpeckyFourEyes code. Ikea 50% off restaurant food, including £1.35 breakfast, £2.45 meatballs. Every Fri till Sept. Swe-dish deals £60 Kärcher Window Vac 6 with 1/2 price code. MSE Blagged. Normally £120, 4,000 available. Kärcher Ends 9am Thu. Cheapest iPhone 15 we've seen '£34/mth'. Newbies to iD Mobile (uses Three's signal) can get the latest model iPhone, the iPhone 15 (128GB), on a 24mth contract with 250GB data via Mobiles.co.uk. It's £99 upfront, then £29.99/mth (though this'll rise in April by inflation + 3.9%), but you get £5 automatic cashback. So that's £814 over the 2yr contract, equivalent to £34/mth. Buying just the handset from Apple is £799, so this is a decent deal. The retailer is responsible for the handset, iD Mobile for the contract. Find your cheapest phone or Sim. See Cheap Mobile Finder. On prepay energy & struggling to pay? Check if you can get a hardship grant. Don't just cut yourself off - check if you can get help from your supplier. |
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THIS WEEK'S POLL How much do you pay for TV or streaming services? As winter's long, cold nights go on, many of us love nothing more than to cosy up in front of the telly with a decent box set or film. Yet with Prime Video joining Disney+ and Netflix in showing ads from next week (unless you pay extra), the line between TV packages and streaming services is becoming increasingly blurred. So we want to know what TV you pay for. Vote in this week's poll. Chase retains the banking service crown. Last week, we asked you to vote in our biannual banking customer service poll, and over 4,200 people responded. Of the banks with more than 75 votes, Chase was once again at the top of the table, with 96% of customers rating it 'great'. First Direct was close behind, at 91% 'great'. Meanwhile, 42% of Barclays customers rated it 'poor' for service. See the full results here. |
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MONEY MORAL DILEMMA Is it OK if I choose to sell something to a woman rather than a man? I've £100 worth of laminate flooring that I've put up for sale online cheaply to get rid of. As the buyer will have to collect, and I'm a woman who lives alone, I've been reluctant to accept any of the offers I've had as they're all from men. I said to a friend that I hoped a woman would make an offer, even if it was lower, as I'd feel safer dealing with them, but my friend said that's unfair and I should sell to the first person who offered the asking price. Should I wait for an offer from someone I'm comfortable giving my address to or do as my friend says? Enter the Money Moral Maze: Is it OK if I choose to sell something to a woman rather than a man? | Suggest a Money Moral Dilemma |
MARTIN'S APPEARANCES (TUE 30 JAN ONWARDS) Tue 30 Jan - The Martin Lewis Money Show Live, ITV1, 8pm (watch previous episodes) MSE TEAM APPEARANCES (SUBJECT TBC) Thu 1 Feb - Gen X Radio with James Hazell, from 11.20am |
VIKING MOUNTS AND 800-YEAR-OLD GOLD SEALS - IMPRESSIVE METAL-DETECTING FINDS That's all for this week, but before we go... following a post-pandemic boom in metal-detecting, the British Museum has just revealed that 2022 was a record-breaking year for everyday folk finding treasure. So we asked our MoneySavers what goodies they've found in the ground. One poster told us they discovered an unexploded bomb, and had to call a disposal unit to come and safely destroy it! A few managed to find some genuine treasure, from Elizabethan and Victorian-era coins to a Viking horse reins mount. The most impressive find has to be a gold seal from 1200AD featuring the portrait of a Roman emperor, which is now on display in the British Museum! Read what others have found and add your own discoveries in our Facebook and Threads conversations. We hope you save some money, |
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