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10 ways to reclaim £100s or £1,000s 0% debt-shifting deals shrinking - get over 30mths 0% NOW Martin: 'Sort your energy NOW' Time to start booking Xmas trains £205 of beauty products for £50 Big 1.5% easy access savings Ends Sun. 'Free' Halfords MOT 'Free' Amazon £6 credit for some How to get to Glastonbury FREE Free and cheap flu jabs 70 lucky dip autumn plants £8 Ends Thu. Fast fibre '£21.39/mth' 7 bottles of wine + 2 glasses, £35 A2(ish) photo canvas £14.49 all-in FREE MSE Mental Health & Debt 2018 booklet

BEST BUYS & TOOLS

Credit Club incl free credit report 0% Balance Transfers Compare Broadband deals Cheap Car Insurance Best Bank Accounts Top Savings Accounts Credit Cards for Bad Credit Cheap Energy Club Credit Card Eligibility Calculator Loans Eligibility Calculator Mortgage Comparison Free online complaints tool - Resolver Compare Travel Money Best Sim Only Deals

The top 10 ways to reclaim £100s or £1,000s

Check if you've had cash ripped from your pocket - then get it back

It's three years this week since we added our Resolver tool to our packaged bank account reclaiming guide... and this got us talking at MSE Towers about what the best reclaims are. After much fighting (you should see the scars from Martin's nails), we've come up with what we (mostly unanimously) think are the top 10 reclaims everyone should check to see if they're owed big bucks. Some you may know, some you may not - and to prevent any more injuries they're in no particular order...

Started uni since 1998? You may have paid off your loan when you shouldn't and be entitled to cash back. £300 is a typical reclaim, £1,100 the biggest we've seen.
You could be owed money from the Student Loan Company if you started paying too early. Our Freedom of Information request found that in three years alone, over 100,000 university leavers repaid too soon. Yet as this could go all the way back to 1998, it's likely there are 100,000s more. See our full Student Loan Overpayments guide.
As Mekila emailed: "I got £1,100 for early repayments before April 2009. It took literally five minutes. What a bonus - I can't believe it."

Had a loan, credit card, mortgage, overdraft or car finance in the last 30 years? You've less than a year left to check for PPI. Typical payout £3,000, our biggest-ever reported payout £153,000.
Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) was systemically mis-sold alongside most debt products - sales staff were scripted to lie. So even though £30bn has been paid out, there's still billions more owed. The banks successfully lobbied for a deadline, and it's now less than a year away. Join over 7m people who've used our Free PPI Reclaim Tool and guide to find out if you're owed - and get your money back for free.
KH emailed: "We believed we never had PPI until we saw you tell everyone to check, even if you didn't think you had it. We had three policies over the past 20yrs and got almost £5,000 back. Thank you."
Flight cancelled or delayed by at least three hours any time since 2012? You may be entitled to compensation. Up to £530 per person.
You can claim for EU-regulated flights if certain conditions are met - eg, it must be the airline's fault. Use our free Flight Delay Reclaim Tool which helps draft your claim and escalate it too if needed.
Nic emailed about claiming for his family: "Using Resolver we were told within 24 hours of submitting the claim we were due £1,406. Used it towards a holiday to Gran Canaria."
Wear a uniform to work? You're entitled to claim tax back. Typically £60-£185, biggest we've seen £250.
If you wear a branded T-shirt, overalls or other uniform for work, wash it yourself and don't wear it elsewhere, you're entitled to a tax rebate each year. Many haven't claimed it, so can get a backdated payout going back up to four years. See Uniform Tax Refund.
Pete tweeted: "Used your uniform tax refund notes and received a letter saying they're refunding me £180 for the last 2 years. #Happy."
Stung by bank charges? You can still claim if you're in financial hardship. Typically £100s, but can add up to £1,000s.
While it's harder now than it used to be, reclaiming bank charges can still be done, but you need to be in genuine hardship to claim. We've free downloadable template letters to help in Bank Charge Reclaiming.
Claire emailed: "I'll get six years of charges back and a goodwill £70 on top... total £865. Thanks Martin."
Paying a sky-high energy direct debit? Challenge it and you could get a refund. Typically £100s, but can be £1,000+.
Paying by monthly direct debit cuts energy costs by roughly 7%. Yet some providers massively overestimate how much energy you'll use over a year, so your monthly payments are too high. It usually just involves a quick call to lower them and get overpaid cash back. Plus old providers may owe you too. See How to Reclaim Energy Credit.
The impact can be huge, as Chris tweeted: "I updated my meter reading and discovered I was over £1,300 in credit. Not only do I have a nice refund before Christmas but a better monthly direct debit too."
Baffled by a mysterious £79 payment to Amazon? Reclaim unwanted Amazon Prime. Usually £79 - can be more if you've paid out for longer.
Amazon Prime gives users one-day delivery and access to services such as video streaming. Yet many have been charged for unwanted Prime membership - some who didn't even realise they'd joined in the first place. We've full help to cancel in Amazon Prime Refunds.
Forumite Gassey says: "I contacted Amazon, pushed them a little and got two years' Prime fees back, £158. Not bad for a five-minute phone call."
Ever paid a fee each month for your bank account? Check if you were mis-sold. Payouts range from £100s to £1,000s.
If you've got or had a packaged bank account - where you pay a monthly fee for extras incl travel, mobile or breakdown cover - you may be owed cash. Many get these accounts for cheap insurance. Yet they've also been mis-sold on a massive scale. To help, we've a Packaged Bank Account Reclaim tool that we built with complaints specialist Resolver - it helps draft your claim, keeps track of it and escalates it if needed.
Alice emailed: "I used Resolver to reclaim packaged account fees from 1995 to 2018 and got a whopping £3,902."
Are you in the wrong council tax band? Check and challenge it. Typically £100s, biggest we've seen £13,000.
Up to 400,000 homes may be in the wrong council tax band because the original valuations were slapdash. It takes ten minutes to check. If you are, not only can you get what you pay reduced, you can get a backdated payout from when you moved in. Don't just challenge willy-nilly though, or you could find your band hiked. Our Council Tax Bands guide has the full system.
Sue emailed: "Thanks so much to Martin Lewis - because of seeing him on a TV programme I got in touch with my local council and received over £3,500 back."
Use a London Oyster card or contactless to travel in the capital? You could be due a share of millions. A tenner's typical, but we've heard of a £72 success.
If you failed to touch your card out at the end of a journey, you'll have been charged the maximum fare - but you can claim the difference back. Plus if you've an old Oyster, you can claim a share of £332m in old unused credit and deposits sloshing about. All it involves is a few clicks - our TFL Refunds guide shows how.
Forumite Daaave says: "I ended up with 4-5 Oyster cards kicking about my house. Got £27 credit back. Took about 10 mins."

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Do you pay interest on credit card debt? 0% debt-shifting deals are getting shorter, fast. Get over 30mths 0% NOW... in case you soon can't

For anyone with debts on existing credit and store cards, a 0% balance transfer is your key weapon. It allows you to get a new card that pays off debts on other cards for you, so you owe it instead, but with no interest. Yet these balance transfer deals are rapidly worsening. In May 2017 you could shift to a massive 43mths 0% - last week it was 36mths, now it's just 34mths. The direction of travel isn't good, so for safety, if you're paying interest, sort it now. First three tips, then best-buys...

- Find the card most likely to accept you BEFORE you apply. Each card has a link to our balance transfer eligibility calc. It shows how likely you are to be accepted, so you can cut your risk of rejection without impacting your creditworthiness.
- Go for the lowest fee in the time you're sure you can repay. Most cards charge a one-off fee on the amount transferred - try to minimise this (factor in cashback). If you're not sure how long you need, play safe and go LONG.
- 'Up to' cards mean you could get a shorter 0% deal if accepted. That's why we include the best 'non up to' options too.

TOP PICK 0% NEW-CARDHOLDER BALANCE TRANSFER CARDS
CARD + CASHBACK (1)	0% LENGTH (APR AFTER)	TRANSFER FEE (2)
Halifax (eligibility calc / apply*) Longest 0% balance transfer	'Up to' 34mths (19.9%)	3%
THE TOP PICK FOR MOST: HSBC (eligibility calc / apply*) Gives £25 cashback if you shift £300+, which for anyone shifting under £1,800 covers the fee. So it's almost as long as the longest, often cheaper than no fee, and if accepted you always get the full 32mths	32mths (19.9%)	1.4%
Ends Fri. Barclaycard (eligibility calc / apply*) Longish card with low fee. Plus get £20 cashback if you shift £2,000+	'Up to' 30mths (19.9%)	0.55% (3)
Santander (eligibility calc / apply*) Longest 0% NO FEE	27mths (18.9%)	None
Ends Fri. Barclaycard (eligibility calc / apply*) NO FEE plus get £20 cashback if you shift £2,000+	'Up to' 24mths (19.9%)	None (3)
(1) You must shift debt within 60 days to get cashback. (2) % of debt shifted. (3) You pay a higher fee upfront & it's refunded to the level shown.

Balance Transfer Golden Rules. Full info and ALL best buys: Best Balance Transfers (APR Examples).
a) Never miss the min monthly repayment, or you could lose the 0% deal and it'll cost far more.
b) Clear the card or balance transfer again before the 0% ends, or the rate rockets to the higher APR.
c) Don't spend/withdraw cash on these. It usually isn't at the cheap rate.
d) You must usually do the balance transfer within 60 days to get the 0% and/or cashback.

£205 of beauty products for £50 via Advent calendar. MSE Blagged. Incl Ciaté, Molton Brown etc. 3,000 avail

1.5% easy access savings, best rate since Jan 2016. Mega-popular last week, so for those who missed it... get 1.5% AER variable (incl a fixed bonus of 0.15% for 1yr) from Marcus Bank*, the UK arm of investment banking giant Goldman Sachs. See Top Savings for more.

Ends Sun. Free Halfords MOT with 50p spend - book any time until Oct 2019. How to get a 'free' MOT.

'Free' Amazon £6 credit for some. See if you're eligible for 'free' £6 Amazon credit.

Missed out on Glastonbury tickets? How you can still go for FREE. On Sun it sold out in 30mins... but we've five ways to get to Glasto for free.

Free and cheap flu jabs. Winter is coming... find the cheapest lurgy protection.

PS: MSE's Coupon Kid is BACK - Crohn's can't keep him down. He's had a tough year in and out of hospital, but we're chuffed our star coupon hunter has returned to MSE Towers. Read his story: Coupon Kid vs Crohn's

BLAGGED FOR MSE

- £50 beauty Advent calendar (£205 indiv) 3,000 avail
- 70 lucky dip plug plants £8 all-in 3,000 bundles avail
- £35 for 7 bottles of wine & 2 glasses 1,500 cases avail
- A2(ish) photo canvas for £14.49 (norm £58) Ends Sun

DID YOU MISS?

- 12 ways to free up memory on your mobile
- Check your state pension forecast
- £12 Baileys 1-litre (norm £20)
- Baby freebies galore - incl toys, clothes, 'sleeping boxes'

Martin: 'For heaven's sake, if you've not sorted your energy provider yet, do it now. Even the cheapest fix is already £140/yr more than a month ago'

Let me be blunt. It's too late to bag this winter's cheapest energy deals. We've constantly nagged about cheap switcher tariffs being pulled, mostly on the back of big oil price rises. In early Sep, someone with typical use could lock in a cheap fix for £867/yr, now it's £1,005/yr - an unprecedented 16% monthly rise.
I don't want to say I told you so, but if it's an excuse to again nag about the importance of sorting this, I'll do it... I told you so. Yet while you can't now save as much, for most who are on Big 6 standard tariffs a £220/yr saving with a promise of no more price hikes is possible, so sort it NOW.

It ONLY takes 5mins to find your cheapest... (imagine I offered you £200 for 5mins' work). It amazes me so few do this, when it's an incredibly lucrative use of time. As your cheapest depends on where you live and your usage, use a comparison site to calculate it. Yet beware they no longer need show you all tariffs, so many now only show those that pay 'em. Of course, our Cheap Energy Club comparison is whole of market by default.
Plus if we can switch you, we give you roughly half what we get as cashback - that's £25 per dual fuel switch - so it's cheaper than going direct. We've now got filters to let you home in on a deal that suits. These links take you through those (they can always be unselected, or combined on the results page)

- The 'I only want firms with great service' comparison - based on our twice-yearly polls.
- The 'No price hikes' comparison - this only lists fixed-ra te tariffs (or go long with a 2+ winters fix comparison).
- The 'I only want names I know' comparison - only shows Big 6 and big brand firms.
- The 'I like my current provider, find me its cheapest' comparison - so you can save without switching.
- The 'Green me up, I want renewable energy' comparison - lists only those with 100% renewable electricity.

Isn't this all redundant as Ofgem's launching a price cap in December? No. Those on providers' standard deals will see prices capped from Dec. For someone on typical use, that means Big 6 prices will drop from around £1,220 to £1,136 a year (for clarity, this doesn't mean £1,136 is the most anyone pays - use more and your cap's higher). Ofgem calls this a 'fair' tariff but that doesn't make it a 'good' tariff - the cheapest deals are still far less.
And be aware this cap is to be updated every 1 Apr and 1 Oct. Since it first announced the cap, wholesale rates (what energy firms pay) have exploded, so some predict it could be £100 higher on 1 Apr.

Is there a chance prices could fall - is it safe to lock in now? There's no sign recent world energy price rises will reverse (but that doesn't mean they can't). And prices could still rise further. Locking in on a cheap fix now protects you from that. If things reversed very heavily you'd usually pay £60ish early exit fees - yet if you're overpaying now, the small risk of that's trivial compared to what you'll save.

70 autumn plants £8 all-in. MSE Blagged. Lucky dip from pansy, primrose, viola, etc. 3,000 avail

Ends Thu. Fast fibre & line equiv £21.39/mth - less than many pay for normal fibre. Newbies to TalkTalk can get superfast avg 63Mb speeds on an 18mth contract. You may need to trade top service for the cheap price though - our last poll saw a small improvement, but still 38% rate it 'poor'. Pay £25/mth on an 18mth contract but claim & spend a £65 Amazon, Argos, Tesco or Ticketmaster vch to make it equiv £21.39/mth. See Broadband Unbundled for more options.

£35 for 7 bottles of wine & 2 glasses. MSE Blagged. Via Naked Wines newbies subscription code. 1,500 avail (Pls be Drinkaware.)

Large A2ish photo canvas for £14.49 delivered (norm £58). MSE Blagged. Or bigger size for £20. Ends Sun.

FREE MSE Mental Health & Debt 2018 booklet. It's Mental Health Day today (Wed). Sadly those with mental health issues are 4x more likely to be in debt crisis. If you or someone you know is impacted, download our free 44-page Mental Health & Debt 2018 booklet - and Martin's Money & Mental Health Policy Institute charity would love you to join its Experts by Experience group.

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AT A GLANCE BEST BUYS

0% balance transfers

Longest 0%: Halifax* up to 34mths 0%, 3% fee (19.9% rep APR)
No-fee 0%: Santander* 27mths 0%, no fee (18.9% rep APR)

Car insurance

Get comparison site quotes in this order:

MoneySupermarket.com* Confused.com* Gocompare* Compare The Market*

Then check insurers they miss:
Direct Line*
Aviva*

Cheap loans

Cheapest for £5,000-£7,499: Admiral* 3.4% rep APR
Cheapest £7.5k-£15k: Sainsbury's Bank* 2.7% rep APR (Nectar custs, 1-3 yrs)

Broadband top picks

Standard b'band & line rent: Sky equiv £13/mth
Fibre b'band & line rent: TalkTalk equiv £20.51/mth

Best bank accounts

£150 to switch + £50 if you stay a year: HSBC
5% interest fixed for a year: Nationwide FlexDirect

Top savings accounts

Top easy-access: Marcus 1.5%, min £1
Top one-year fix: OakNorth 2.02%, min £1,000

Now's the perfect time to start booking Christmas trains

Don't derail your budget - our tips incl splitting your ticket and how to get a £10 railcard

If you're train-ing home for Christmas and New Year, now's the time to start looking for tickets, as cheap advance fares will disappear faster than the sherry and mince pies you leave out for Santa. The sackful of tips in our Cheap Train Tickets guide apply all year round though (think of it as a gift that keeps on giving) - here are a few to get you on the right track...

Book Xmas trains now to grab cheap fares. Rail firms usually confirm timetables and start selling cheap advance tickets around 12 weeks ahead . Some are releasing Christmas tickets a little later this year but others are already selling super-cheap fares, so now's the time to start looking - eg, we found 22-28 Dec London-Leeds £39rtn (£110 on the day). We've a full list of release dates, plus how to get a free alert when more tickets go on sale. Xmas trains
Two singles can often beat a return. Bizarrely, it may be cheaper. This applies year-round, but is especially true for the festive period - you may need to weigh up whether to buy a cheap single now or wait for a return as most post-Xmas tickets aren't available yet. Singles vs returns
Split your ticket to save. We always say chuck the logic book out the window with trains, and this is particularly true when it comes to split-ticketing. Same train, same time - buy two or more tickets and you may save large. Eg, we found a Manchester to Edinburgh ticket for £106, but Manchester to York then York to Edinburgh was £60. See how to do this and tools to help find where it works in Split ticket help.
Swap £10 Tesco vouchers for £30 train tickets. You can exchange Clubcard points to use on train site RedSpottedHanky. It works on advance tickets and with railcards, but note there's a £1 booking fee (and Tesco's stopping this offer in Feb).
Slash the cost with a railcard - some can get one for £10. Railcards - for families, couples, under-26s, over-60s, disabled people and more - give a 1/3 off many fares. To max the saving, look for a deal on the railcard itself - right now we've blagged 15% off a 16-25 Railcard, and if you or a pal has a season ticket in the south of Eng or West Mids, you can bag a £10 railcard. Full info in Railcard savings.

FREE 6-bag Walkers crisps multipack (norm £1.50). Get a vch now, redeem next week. Save a packet

BT HAGGLE - SUCCESS OF THE WEEK:
"Thanks. I just haggled down my BT bill from £74 to £48 with one phone call. Over the 18-month contract this will save me £468." (Send us yours on this or any topic.)

Fun Oct half-term activities (and life skills) for 16-17-year-olds for £25. Norm £50 but half-price with a code. Govt-backed Eng & NI scheme incl nights away - gets teens abseiling, canoeing and more. Spaces still avail, but going quick. National Citizen Service

THIS WEEK'S POLL

Would you eat food past its 'best-before' date? This week, Tesco announced it is removing 'best-before' dates from over 100 fruit and vegetable products in an effort to reduce waste. So when you find food at home past its best-before date, what do you do? Would you eat food past its 'best-before' date?

Older MoneySavers are most likely to pick up a penny. In last week's poll, we asked if you'd bend down to pick up money lying around and 14,000+ of you responded. Tellingly, the most likely group to pick up coppers were the over-50s, with 71% saying they'd pick up a penny. In contrast, less than a third of under-25s would do the same, in fact, 12% of this group wouldn't pick up less than £1. See full penny poll results.

MONEYSAVING NEWS

- Top Story: New TSB blunder as customers wrongly told they need to pay cash in within hours
- Savers pay £2m into new Help to Save scheme in one month
- Judge rules against 'Google You Owe Us' campaign group
- Waitrose to deliver groceries while you're out
- Lloyds and Halifax PPI customers could be due refunds after banks failed to send letters
- Let companies make water meters compulsory, MPs say

MONEY MORAL DILEMMA

My housemate has a bigger room - how should we split the rent? I'm renting a shared house and recently found out my housemate is paying less than me for a bigger room. We just signed a new contract and have agreed to discuss splitting it in a fairer way. What's the best way to go about this? Enter the Money Moral Maze: How should we split the rent? | Suggest an MMD | View past MMDs

THE QUICKIES

- Debt-Free Wannabe chat of the week: Looking to clear debt by 2020
- Competitions thread of the week: Win £1,000 to spend with eBay
- Old-Style board thread of the week: What sort of stuff can I pickle?
- Family, marriage, relationships chat: Best paid job for a 16/17 year old
- Discussion of the week: Stay with your parents, or rent?

Quick deals

Grüum - shave & body scrub set £15 delivered (norm £38)
£12 Baileys - normally £20
Debenhams - up to 30% off winter sale
Tesco - half-price toy sale in selected stores
Grand Designs Live - 2for1 tickets for 10-14 Oct at the NEC

Restaurant deals

Domino's - 25% off £20 spend
Subway - 'Savers' menu, incl 99p hash browns
Burger King - meal deals, incl £2 burger and fries
Pizza Express - 2for1 main courses (Mon-Wed)
Ask Italian - 25% off food (Mon-Thu)

Bargains, deals & steals

Hot Diamonds - 30% extra off 'up to 50% off' outlet code
Miss Selfridge - 25% off everything
Superdrug - up to 50% off beauty advent calendars
HMV - 2 for £25 on selected vinyl
Free Sunday cinema ticket - when you buy £3 of choc

Quick Forum Tips

'Free' Benefit product with Elle magazine - Blinkin 'ell
Tena Lady free sample - Free Tena
Free Halloween baking pack - Monster munch

MSE TEAM BLOG

- Why I paid a 7-year-old to draw me a picture

MARTIN'S APPEARANCES (WED 10 OCT ONWARDS)

Thu 11 Oct - Good Morning Britain, ITV, Deals of the Week, 7.40am
Fri 12 Oct - This Morning, ITV, Martin's Quick Deals, from 10.30am
Mon 15 Oct - This Morning, ITV, from 10.30am
Mon 15 Oct - BBC Radio 5 Live, Lunch Money Martin, noon. Listen again

MSE TEAM APPEARANCES (SUBJECTS TBC)

Wed 10 Oct - BBC Cumbria, Money Talks with Ben Maeder, from 6pm
Fri 12 Oct - BBC South West stations, Good Morning with Joe Lemer, from 5am
Mon 15 Oct - TalkRadio, Breakfast with Julia Hartley-Brewer, 9.45am
Tue 16 Oct - BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, Lunchtime Live with Jeremy Sallis, 2.20pm

QUESTION OF THE WEEK

Q: Virgin Media has emailed to say it intends to raise prices in November. How can it do this when we have a contract? Patricia, via email

MSE Steve B's A: Annoyingly the regulator Ofcom's rules do allow telecoms firms to raise prices mid-contract - in Virgin's case, it's said it's t o cover rising costs. However, the rules also say you can leave your contract penalty-free if prices rise, so long as you tell your provider you're off within 30 days of being notified.

This means you are free to switch to another provider - see our Broadband Unbundled tool for the best deals - or if you'd prefer to stick with Virgin, it's also the perfect time to haggle. 82% of MoneySavers who tried were successful in negotiating a better deal with Virgin, such as Mary: "Phoned when threatened with yet another price hike. Now paying £25 per month instead of nearly £50!" See our Haggle with Virgin guide for more tips.

Please suggest a question of the week (we can't reply to individual emails).

'MERRY CRISP-MAS, EVERYONE'

That's all for this week, but before we go... we've yet to get to Halloween but (scarily) the door is already open to novelty Advent calendars. One of the earliest to pop up at MSE Towers is the Pringles Christmas calendar, featuring 12 cans of crisps hidden away behind the festive windows. But is it actually a deal worth singing Pringle-bells about? Head over to our Advent calendar deals page to see if it stacks up.

We hope you save some money,
The MSE team

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