Pensions Special: Double your investment, how to start one, are workplace pensions good, consolidation & more

The Martin Lewis Podcast

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4.2 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

A special podcast all about starting and saving in a pension, including the two pension superpowers that instantly double your investment.

Martin is joined by Charlotte Jackson from Money Helper, the free and impartial service giving help with money and pensions. They explain how pensions actually work, and whether you should stay opted not your work place pension. Should you consolidate your pensions? How to start your first pension? Should you start a pension for your child? How to get totally impartial free guidance. Stakeholder pensions versus nest versus SIPPs? How much to save in your pension?

If you want to hear more on pensions, then look check out our special ‘Not The Martin Lewis Podcast’ episodes from July 2024 on this feed.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts.
0:04.8	Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the cunningly named the Martin Lewis podcast.
0:09.4	I do wonder what that's all going to be about.
0:11.4	Now, usually much of it comes from my BBC Radio 5 live show with Adrian Childs.
0:15.1	But no, not this week, no.
0:17.4	This is a pod-only pension-saving special, just for you lucky, lucky podcast listeners.
0:25.1	In today's pod, the two pension superpowers that mean you can more than double your investment instantly.
0:33.2	Whether you should stay opted into your workplace pension or not, spoiler alert, yes you should.
0:39.6	Should you consolidate your pensions? The pros and consens.
0:44.2	How to save in a pension if you're self-employed?
0:47.5	How to avoid leaving your pension to your ex? It's a much easier mistake to make than you think.
0:54.3	And children's pensions.
0:56.1	Yes, they exist, and some people have them.
0:58.2	Play the theme tune.
1:02.0	I got meals.
1:04.5	I got to pay.
1:06.4	So I'm going to work,
1:07.7	work,
1:08.6	I'm going to work,
1:08.7	I'm out, I got a feed, so I'm going to work hard and gray's at the edge. I've got more. I'm a real. I'm really. I know. I'm
1:25.6	I'm really. Asked me pension questions. Now, in a way, is a worry because I'm in my. I know. I find more of my social group, ask me pension questions.
1:27.8	Now, in a way, is a worry because I'm in my 50s and you shouldn't be asking about pensions in your 50s.
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