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Urgent. Energy firm punch-up - take advantage, save £200/yr. There's an energy firm price war on. They're battling to be the top big name in the switching tables. It started with British Gas, then E.on undercut, Scottish Power came in - and the lead's flick-flacked as each has cut prices 3 times in response, leaving them now £20ish/yr cheaper than the start. Millions can save, such as Jan, who tweeted: "@MartinSLewis thanks to you I've saved over £1,000/yr on my energy bills. Feel like I've been ripped off for years." So if you're one of the many who tell us you want a name you know, here's the state of play...
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Now open. Self-employed grant 3 - worth up to £7,500 BUT declaration criteria are much stricter. If you were eligible for or received grant 1 or 2, you're eligible for this (sadly those excluded are still excluded), but the declaration rules are now much stricter. See Can I claim the third SEISS grant? - including Martin's detailed Radio 5 Live explanation. Water-saving freebies, eg, 30,000 NEW water pipe & tap protectors to save £100s in winter repairs. Find out what you can get in our winter water-savers. Ikea's sale to start TODAY? Plus Soap & Glory, Amex free £5 & more in our UPDATED Christmas Deals Predictor. More and more of our predictions are being confirmed - see Christmas Deals Predictor 2020. Slash the cost of sending parcels to the UK & abroad, eg, UK send for free not £11, Oz £6 not £65. We've updated our Cheap UK Parcel Delivery guide in time for Christmas. Also see MSE Jenny's new Sending gifts overseas blog. Totally FREE photo postcard. Good for Christmas and more, for FreePrints app newbies. Free photo postcard Worried about debts? DON'T WAIT - get free help before Christmas. If you're stressed due to debts, don't wait to get free one-on-one non-profit help. Many leave it till after Christmas, when debt-counselling agencies are swamped (and things have got worse). Do it now. It should help you sleep at night. See how to get free debt help. Arcadia (incl Topshop, Burton etc) in administration + Debenhams set to close - your rights. Dire news for some high st giants - see full info on gift cards, online orders, return rights and more in our Topshop, Burton etc help and Debenhams help. Do you work there? We're afraid it's important to tool up on your redundancy rights. |
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PS: NS&I has just announced it's delaying scrapping paper Premium Bonds prize cheques. |
Easyjet's cutting its free hand luggage allowance. See full info on what's changing and what you can do. Calling all TEACHERS: new free financial education teacher training e-learning course. Martin's funded the Young Money charity to provide a new free teacher training digital course for primary and secondary educators, to go alongside the free financial education textbooks. Pls spread word. £70 of nail polish £28 delivered. MSE Blagged. Incl eight full-size 14ml polishes. 1,700 sets avail. Nails Inc Get £25 cashback for investing £250. MSE Blagged. If you plan to 'robo-invest' - where investments are selected for you based on your attitude to risk - then after fees, this Wealthify deal for newbies is equiv to a 9.6% head start. But you'll need to keep the investment for a MIN 6-7mths. (The fact we've included it doesn't mean we recommend Wealthify, as we don't do investment tips - it's just if you're going to use Wealthify anyway, you can get cashback.) 1,000 avail. Robo-investing cashback 25% off full-price Bobbi Brown, eg, £30ish eyeshadow palette for £22ish. MSE Blagged. Ends Thu. Bobbi Brown Power of Attorney money back: 1.3m refunds of up to £54 still owed - less than 2mths to claim. We've found a huge number of people are still due a rebate after the Govt set fees too high over a 4yr period. Check if you can claim a Power of Attorney refund. Have your holidays abroad been disrupted by Covid this year? How did the firm deal with it? Pls take 3mins to fill in our Refund goodies and baddies SURVEY. It lets us praise the good and highlight the bad to regulators. Pls share. |
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THIS WEEK'S POLL If you could cancel Christmas, would you? For some, it conjures up a picture of family, fun and festive frivolity. For others it means added stress, debt and chores - and, of course, this year it could look very different given coronavirus restrictions. So if you had a CANCEL CHRISTMAS button that'd make the whole thing disappear, would you press it? One in five MoneySavers have NEVER made a call on their home landline. Last week, we asked when you last made or received a call on your landline - 17,000 of you responded. While 35% of those with a landline had made a call in the last week, 24% last did so over a year ago and 21% said they'd never used their current landline to make a call. Younger MoneySavers were more likely to have ditched the landline phone altogether - 29% of under-35s said they didn't have one, compared with just 1% of over-65s. See full landline poll results. |
MONEY MORAL DILEMMA Should I ask my partner to contribute to Christmas gifts for my family? This is my second Christmas with my partner, and we'd planned to each buy our own family's gifts and put both names on them. However, his family now want to do a Secret Santa, where each person buys just one other person a present, with a £50 limit. I feel pressure to be involved, but will have to spend another £50 on his family, having bought all my family's presents myself. Should I ask him to contribute to what I've spent? Enter the Money Moral Maze: Should I ask my partner to contribute to Christmas gifts? | Suggest an MMD | View past MMDs |
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MARTIN'S APPEARANCES (WED 2 DEC ONWARDS) Thu 3 Dec - This Morning, phone-in, ITV, 10.45am MSE TEAM APPEARANCES (MOST SUBJECTS TBC) Wed 2 Dec - Be Clever With Your Cash, podcast with Andy Webb, Helen Saxon on Premium Bonds, from Wed lunchtime |
THE ELF ON THE SHELF IS OUT OF HIDING: PARENTS GET CREATIVE That's all for this week, but before we go... we're now into December which means we're counting down to Christmas. And the Elf on the Shelf craze is back (where Santa's little helper is moved into a new mischievous position every night, watching to ensure kids are behaving ahead of the big day). Thinking of 24 new and creative ideas isn't easy, so parents have been sharing their top tips. The most popular has to be putting him into quarantine - very fitting for 2020, and obviously complying with elf and safety rules... So if you need inspiration, or have ideas to share, see our Elf on the Shelf Facebook post. We hope you save some money, stay safe, |
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