A woman has revealed that she received an £18,000 cheque after following financial expert Martin Lewis' advice on his show.
This news came after Martin shared a pensions tax trick on his show, that thousands of people are failing to claim, reports the Liverpool Echo. The Money Saving Expert returned to his ITV show on Tuesday, as he shared the "big money tip".
He also went into detail about how to claim the tax, alongside the specific circumstances that make people eligible for it. Martin also noted that hundreds of thousands of people - mostly women - could be owed at least £6,000 each.
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Co-presenter Angelica Bell shared an email that a viewer had sent in earlier. The viewer, called Joan, said: "After watching your show on married women's state pension, I contacted the tax department and, although it did take about 7 months, I received a cheque for £18,000. I was amazed as I never expected this amount!"
Martin then broke down the complicated set of circumstances that could make people eligible to claim a lot of money. He said: "There are hundreds of thousands of, generally women, who are due at least £6,000 pension back.
"Married women and widows may have been underpaid, specifically women who hit state pension age before April 6, 2016. So that's people aged approximately 70 or older. And your basic state pension needed to be 60% of your husband's basic state pension and this is only for married couples.
"Now, you will get an automatic top up and it should be backdated. If your husband was 65 on or after March 17 2008, or you're a widow whose husband died after April 2008 and you're getting less than 60% of his pension. But you still need to claim.
"There are free tools online and you can call the pension service to do it. If you divorced after getting your state pension, and your pension is less than your ex-husband's, again you may be eligible.
"And there's a whole new category since I first did it. This can be a man as well, if you stay at home and look after the kids or you were a carer and you got the benefit for it, since April 1978 then if you don't get a full state pension then you may be entitled to a top up on that.
"As you've seen with Joan, this is really big money."
The Martin Lewis Money Show: Live returns to ITV and the ITV Hub on Tuesday, November 1 at 8pm.
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