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Searching for 'Martin Lewis PPI'? Make sure you don't get caught out by an ad
Users searching for the terms 'Martin Lewis PPI' and 'Money Saving Expert PPI' on Google are being met with links to claims firms - which may charge commission on reclaims - at the top of their search
7 August 2019
Had a cold caller at your door? They're NOT from MoneySavingExpert.com
We've heard reports of cold callers claiming to be from MoneySavingExpert.com. So once again we're warning everyone – MoneySavingExpert NEVER cold calls
23 July 2019
Martin Lewis, Citizens Advice and Facebook launch major initiatives to fight scam ads
Both initiatives have launched today
16 July 2019
MSE Charity celebrates 10 years since giving its first grant
The MSE Charity is celebrating 10 years since its first grants were handed out
3 April 2019
Beware scammers collecting 'donations' for Martin's financial education textbooks
The charity behind the UK's first-ever financial education textbook has alerted police after a report that an elderly man was tricked into paying £100s to fraudsters claiming to be collecting donations for the book
20 December 2018
New Editor-in-Chief joins MSE
Marcus joins from the BBC, where he’s most recently been working on digital strategy for the Director General’s office
18 September 2018
'Ombudsman membership must be compulsory', Martin tells MPs
MoneySavingExpert.com gave evidence to an influential group of MPs this morning
13 September 2018
What happened when we called the PPI fraudsters who are pretending to be us
Fraudsters claiming to work at MoneySavingExpert.com have been cold calling people as part of a new PPI scam
30 July 2018
Martin Lewis meets Facebook over fake adverts
MSE Founder Martin Lewis will ask Facebook to fundamentally change the way it polices adverts at a meeting today
16 May 2018
Facebook admits it's had to take down THOUSANDS of fake Martin Lewis ads
A Facebook executive has told MPs that the social media platform has removed
27 April 2018
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Martin: Santander 123 now a dead duckAs it slashes interest & cashback
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100+Mb b'band & line '£19/mth'We've never seen cheaper
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Trainline has new split ticket toolBut there's better & cheaper
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Warning. Booking a hol?Get travel insurance ASAB
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EDF joins Brit Gas in price cutsFor existing custs
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'Secret' shoe outletsEg, £21 Puma trainers
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Top easy-access savings - 1.35%Rates are dropping like flies
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Mortgage prisoner?Legal action launches
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13 charity shop bargain tipsIncl nabbing designer clobber
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'I fostered a cat for free'You can do it with dogs etc too
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'My hamster ate my post': HMRC reveals most bizarre tax return excuses as deadline looms
17 January 2020
HM Revenue & Customs has released the most "weird and wonderful" excuses it's received from taxpayers who have failed to get their self-assessment tax return in on time – with bizarre explanations such as 'I was up a mountain in Wales' -
Nationwide double-charges hundreds of customers for credit card repayments
16 January 2020
Hundreds of Nationwide customers have had their monthly credit card repayment taken twice, with one family overcharged by up to £2,500, MoneySavingExpert.com can reveal -
Many private parking firms to spare drivers hefty fines for number-plate errors
16 January 2020
Motorists who enter the wrong number-plate details when paying for private parking tickets will in many cases no longer be 'fined' the full amount -
Got a Hotpoint or Indesit washing machine? Your rights as 100,000s of machines are recalled
16 January 2020
Whirlpool is preparing to issue a product recall of up to 519,000 Hotpoint and Indesit washing machines found to pose a fire safety risk – here are your rights if your machine's affected -
Ovo completes purchase of SSE – what it means for customers
15 January 2020
In a major shake-up of the energy market, challenger firm Ovo has finalised the purchase of SSE – if you're an SSE customer, here's what it means for you.
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Martin Lewis VIDEO: Should you pay off your Plan 1 student loan?
7 January 2020
If you started university between 1998 and 2012, or since then in Scotland and Northern Ireland, you'll have a Plan 1 student loan. While much is written about whether those with savings should overpay the current English Plan 2 student loans, there's little out there about Plan 1. I wanted to change that, so here's a video explaining how to decide... -
How much the Govt expects you to give your children for university
16 December 2019
Update Note 25 May 2017: The ready reckoners below have been updated with the new 2017/2018 living loan amounts. Also since first writing this blog, and seeing the strength of feeling it attracted, I have written an open letter to the Uni Minister asking him to start telling people about this. Yet sadly received his no we won’t...
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