Martin Lewis says women born before this date could be owed thousands of pounds

Richard Guttridge

15 May 2024 at 4:19 am·2-min read

Money expert Martin Lewis has alerted women born after a certain date to thousands of pounds in cash they may potentially be owed. Female pensioners could be due a payout over historic errors in the pension system.

Mr Lewis has now urged women aged 70 or over to check if they could be owed a large sum of money. He said hundreds of thousands of women "are due big bucks".

A free checker on his moneysavingexpert website allows people to find out if they might be owed cash. The finance expert shared the update in his latest newsletter, and said many could be automatically be refunded if they meet the criteria.

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It means anyone born before 1954 could be owed money. Mr Lewis said: "Woman aged 70+? You may be due £10,000s back due to errors in your state pension. 100,000s of married or now divorced/widowed women on the 'old' state pension (those who hit state pension age before April, 6 2016) are due big bucks due to pension system errors, mainly as they didn't get the cut of their husbands' pensions due to them.

"It's often about if the wife receives under 60% of the husband's state pension. There's a full eligibility list in Are you one of 200,000+ women missing out on £1,000s of state pension? Many will now automatically be refunded, but you will still need to claim if...

You got divorced AFTER reaching state pension age.
Your husband turned 65 before 17 March 2008.
You're a married woman on zero state pension, getting a small amount of additional state pension / SERPS."

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