Martin Lewis issues huge car finance claim update as millions more people could be owed money

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Martin Lewis issues huge car finance claim update as payout could be on same scale as PPISource: Good Morning Britain

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00:00Yeah, so earlier in January this year, the regulator announced that anyone who had had

00:06a discretionary commission arrangement on their car finance, which is where dealers

00:10could increase the interest on your car finance dealer in order to get more commission.

00:15It was investigating and it was urging people to put in complaints as they may be able to

00:19get that money back, which could be large.

00:21Now, then two weeks ago, we had one of those moments where people who look at a subject

00:25just go, what?

00:27And that was because the Court of Appeal ruled on Car Finance Commission, I just need to

00:31read you the statement, consumers need to know all material facts, including the amount

00:37of commission.

00:38And that means it was no longer just about discretionary commission arrangements, which

00:43was 40%.

00:45We've had an announcement from the regulator today saying it is extending the hold on complaints,

00:50which means things are going to take longer because it's waiting the Supreme Court of

00:53announcement.

00:54But when you read within that, it's now saying there is a hold on firms dealing with all

00:59Car Finance Commission complaints, not just the 40% who had those discretionary commissions

01:04where the dealer could increase interest, but all Car Finance Commission complaints.

01:09So it is effectively paving the way for all those complaints to be investigated if there's

01:17a Supreme Court ruling that upholds the Court of Appeal, which would mean potentially anyone

01:23who has had Car Finance, because all of them had commission on, is may well be eligible

01:29for a payout.

01:30It's even at the moment saying everybody should be putting complaints in, not just those with

01:34discretionary commission arrangements.

01:36So this over doubles the number of eligible people.

01:38To put this in perspective, my tool and money saving expert alone for complaining has already

01:43had two and a half million complaints put through.

01:46It was already predicted that this could be a payout of eight to 12 billion pounds.

01:52And now effectively, and it will all depend on the Supreme Court upholding the Court of

01:56Appeal ruling, this could potentially more than double the number of people who were

02:01involved in all this.

02:03And you will be talking out, if it all were to go through, and there are a lot of ifs

02:06in there, a PPI scale of payouts potentially coming through, which, of course, has some

02:12very serious knock on effects to the car finance industry.

02:14Martin, just briefly, who would be affected?

02:18What dates?

02:19How to put in a complaint or claim?

02:23Well, if you had one of those discretionary commission arrangements, which you won't know,

02:27the only way to find out is by complaining to see if you had one of those, then you should

02:31be putting in a complaint now.

02:33Other people, I need to be honest, this broke minutes ago.

02:37I'm going to be rewriting my tool to allow other people to complain and put in a provisional

02:41complaint so you don't go through a time bar.

02:44But what it's looking like, cursory, it's only just happened, is anyone who's had car

02:48finance.

02:49But I need to see the dates that are being specific.

02:51More of this is going to come out.

02:52But it's just everybody involved, keep your eye on this, listen to what's going on.

02:56This is big.

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