Beat the urgent ISA deadline – top cash ISAs for savers, stocks & shares for investing

The Martin Lewis Podcast

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4.2 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

ISA ISA baby!

Martin joins Adrian to answer all your questions on savings tax, Cash ISAs, Junior ISAs and more before the fast approaching deadline in April.

Chartered Financial Planner Ed Marshall also joins Martin to help with stocks and shares ISAs.

You tell us about your financial ‘light bulb’ moments.

Plus Martin shares his thoughts on back-billing with MPs… find out why you might not have to pay for energy usage if its more than a year old.

Get in touch with the podcast by emailing [email protected]

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the cunningly named the Martin Lewis podcast. I do wonder
0:09.4	what that's going to be about. Usually much of it comes from a BBC Radio 5 live show with
0:13.6	Adrian Charles, but don't worry, there's bonus money-saving tips just for you lucky-lucky
0:17.9	podcast listeners. Today, Isa, IA, baby. The tax year deadline is
0:23.2	fast approaching and that means you have to use your ISA or you lose it. I'll be talking through
0:28.4	when is an ISA nicer? How do ISAs actually work? How you can boost interest on your savings by
0:35.2	using cash isers? How does the tax on savings works? And we've
0:38.7	had loads of your questions, lots of interesting ones, and I'll be trying to answer as many of
0:42.4	those as possible. I say trying. I've answered loads of them. I know. I'm recording this after
0:46.2	I've done the actual podcast. Plus, I have an investment specialist joining me to talk the best
0:51.0	stocks and shares, Isis. We'll also be talking about energy-back billing and the crucial
0:56.8	rule that if they give you a bill for over a year ago, you generally don't have to pay it.
1:02.5	The tellers this week is all about, and it was fascinating, what your biggest financial
1:07.1	light bulb moment has been, when you suddenly realized what you'd been doing wrong
1:11.6	and fixed it. And the mastermind's all about credit card interest rates. Play the theme tune.
1:20.2	I got meals. I got to pay. So I'm going to work. I'm going to work. I got a it. I got a mile.
1:29.3	I got to feed.
1:31.3	I got to feed.
1:32.3	Martin Lewis is here.
1:36.3	I've got your cult, Martin.
1:38.3	After weeks, after weeks of not getting it, you transferred it.
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