Martin Lewis has issued an urgent £25m warning to thousands as a compensation deadline looms TOMORROW. BBC Sounds podcast host and ITV regular Mr Lewis has revealed who is eligible and what you need to do to get your hands on the cash.
The 52-year-old Money Saving Expert (MSE) founder posted on X, formerly Twitter, urging people to check if they made journeys with the company from 2015. He wrote: “URGENT: Did you travel with South West Trains 2015 to 2017?
“Quickly check if you’re due an easy £30+. It’s paying up to £25m in compensation for alleged historic overcharging, but you’ve only got till 11.59pm on Friday to do it…” You could be owed compensation if you held a Transport for London travelcard and travelled on South Western Trains between 1 October 2015 and 20 August 2017.
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The South Western rail line runs trains between London (Waterloo station) and major towns and cities in the South West. These include Reading, Woking, Guildford, Portsmouth, Basingstoke, Southampton, Bournemouth, Weymouth, Salisbury, Exeter, Bath and Bristol.
You must have held a valid Travelcard for within one or several of Transport for London’s fare zones, and the rail fare you paid for will have overlapped with these zones. You can claim for yourself or for someone you bought tickets for.
Boundary fares allow passengers who own a Travelcard to get discounts on tickets to take them from the boundary of their travelcard to their final destination. For example, if you own a zone 1-4 Travelcard but need to travel between Waterloo and Reading, you should be able to buy a fare from the edge of zone 4.
But customers have claimed these cheaper fares are not easily available online and rarely offered at a ticket office during a legal wrangle, which could lead to £30 payouts for many.