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100-year-old woman only realises she's eligible for pension having missed out on £75,000

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claiming her pension after not knowing for twenty years that she was eligible - and has missed out on £75,000. Margaret Bradshaw, who was born in Britain moved away and lived and worked outside of the UK for nearly all her adult life so initially wasn’t entitled to a state pension when she returned in 1990.

But after the great-grandmother turned 80 in 2001, she was eligible but had no idea until recently when her daughter read a news article about it, writes The Mirror.

Margaret's daughter Helen Cunningham, 78, decided to look into it after reading the the article which was people not claiming pension, and investigated on behalf of her mother.She discovered widow Margaret, who has dementia and lives in a care home, had been entitled to.

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