{"id":940332,"date":"2026-05-05T23:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T23:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/940332\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T23:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T23:38:17","slug":"martin-lewis-warns-people-could-be-owed-thousands-in-lost-pensions-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/940332\/","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":940333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3093],"tags":[150660,1029,260582,51,251751,47671,260581,474,260580,44888,15132,5479,47681,2499,2249,201226,87919,252301,10031,252297,104,93,252847,30364,260579,8467,16,252300,15,260583],"class_list":["post-940332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-antonin-kinsky","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-bestpix","tag-business","tag-club-soccer","tag-color-image","tag-eight-finals","tag-finance","tag-first-leg","tag-horizontal","tag-julian-alvarez","tag-madrid","tag-match-sport","tag-personal-finance","tag-photography","tag-sadness","tag-scoring","tag-scoring-a-goal","tag-soccer","tag-soccer-player","tag-spain","tag-sport","tag-sports-team","tag-stadium","tag-tottenham-hotspur-f-c","tag-uefa-champions-league","tag-uk","tag-union-of-european-football-associations","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wanda-metropolitano"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}