{"id":482042,"date":"2026-06-17T14:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/482042\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T14:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:29:09","slug":"martin-lewis-reveals-how-to-reclaim-billions-in-lost-bank-accounts-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/482042\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Lewis reveals how to reclaim billions in \u2018lost\u2019 bank accounts | Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could you be missing out on money unknowingly stored away in \u201clost\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/lifestyle\/martin-lewis-pensions-check-ex-partner-video-b2977547.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bank accounts and pensions<\/a>? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/martin-lewis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Good Morning Britain on Wednesday (17 June), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/martin-lewis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Lewis<\/a> explained billions of unclaimed financial assets are currently being sat on, with the average lost pension pot being worth around \u00a320,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to realise what a substantial amount of money this is,\u201d he told viewers.<\/p>\n<p>He said the best way to go about reclaiming the money is first starting by contacting the provider directly. He then went on to list three services that will help you in locating the \u201clost\u201d money that belongs to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Could you be missing out on money unknowingly stored away in \u201clost\u201d bank accounts and pensions? Speaking on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,233810,233809,244,245],"class_list":["post-482042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-optamatchid2562254","tag-optauuid51i8bgm45ruiglvkbgnyb6ihg","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482042","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=482042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}