{"id":230473,"date":"2026-01-13T01:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T01:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/230473\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T01:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T01:31:07","slug":"martin-lewis-issues-warning-over-the-most-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/230473\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Lewis issues warning over \u2018the most dangerous\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/martin-lewis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Martin Lewis<\/a> has warned against underestimating what he describes as \u2018the most dangerous form of mainstream debt\u2019 in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>While many people prioritise credit card debt, the money saving expert points to current account overdrafts &#8211; which typically charge interest as high as 40% &#8211; as being considerably more costly, and a trap many can fall into when trying to pay off their credit cards.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on The Martin Lewis Podcast,  Lewis told viewers: \u201cIf you\u2019re overdrawn, your debit card is a debt card too, and it is more expensive than a credit card,\u201d adding: \u201cthink of your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/overdraft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">overdraft<\/a> like a debt &#8211; plan to pay it off.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Lewis has warned against underestimating what he describes as \u2018the most dangerous form of mainstream debt\u2019 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[251,138,784,246,788,782,111,43,785,783,786,139,69,244,245,787,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-230473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-daily-news","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-global-news","13":"tag-inkl","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-news-app","17":"tag-news-headlines","18":"tag-news-today","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-personal-finance","22":"tag-personalfinance","23":"tag-today-news","24":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}