{"id":470227,"date":"2026-05-05T22:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/470227\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T22:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:33:14","slug":"martin-lewis-warns-people-could-be-owed-thousands-in-lost-pensions-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/470227\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Lewis warns people could be owed thousands in \u2018lost\u2019 pensions | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Lewis has urged people to check to see if they could be owed thousands of pounds in \u201clost\u201d pensions.<\/p>\n<p>During a pension special of The Martin Lewis Money Show on Tuesday (5 May), the financial guru explained how to check if you could be owed money for free.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lewis said: \u201cThere\u2019s over \u00a330bn of pensions thought to be lost, an average of just under \u00a310,000 each.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He explained how pensions could have been lost when people didn\u2019t inform employers of their new contact details, or if a person has changed jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lewis urged people to dig out their paperwork and contact their former employer if they think they have a \u201clost\u201d pension, or visit the pension tracing service on the gov.uk website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Lewis has urged people to check to see if they could be owed thousands of pounds in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[176496,28691,206279,79,196316,27125,206278,18,206277,789,19,17,54520,27980,194887,234,235,432,86065,206274,196318,4335,196315,383,119,196314,177982,206275,49898,206276,206280],"class_list":{"0":"post-470227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-antonin-kinsky","9":"tag-atletico-madrid","10":"tag-bestpix","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-club-soccer","13":"tag-color-image","14":"tag-eight-finals","15":"tag-eire","16":"tag-first-leg","17":"tag-horizontal","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-julian-alvarez","21":"tag-madrid","22":"tag-match-sport","23":"tag-personal-finance","24":"tag-personalfinance","25":"tag-photography","26":"tag-sadness","27":"tag-scoring","28":"tag-scoring-a-goal","29":"tag-soccer","30":"tag-soccer-player","31":"tag-spain","32":"tag-sport","33":"tag-sports-team","34":"tag-stadium","35":"tag-tottenham-hotspur-f-c","36":"tag-uefa-champions-league","37":"tag-union-of-european-football-associations","38":"tag-wanda-metropolitano"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116524351891332275","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}