Money expert Martin Lewis has just explained exactly when shops are forced to accept cash payments - and when they can say "no".
Speaking on ITV's Martin Lewis Money Show, he was answering a question from a viewer who asked: "If cash is legal tender, are businesses breaking rules by only accepting cards." And, for once, the answer was simple. "No, they are not breaking any rules," Martin said. "You are allowed to take card only as long as it's not discriminatory for race or disability or something." But that brought up the question of what, exactly, legal tender was. "The legal tender thing is interesting," Martin said. "Legal tender has a strict definitiioon. "It means if you have a court awarded debt against you, if someone tries to
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