An NHS hospital cleaner cashed in her pension to cover rocketing electricity bills but died from Covid just two months later, leaving nothing for her children. Judith Thorpe was just 49 when she died last week.
She had become so desperate in her battle to keep up with rocketing bills that she decided she had no option but to cash in her pension to protect her two teenage daughters and make sure they had new school uniforms. But now they have been left with no inheritance.
That's because the family will miss out on as much as £30,000 worth of death in membership benefits after Judith's heartbreaking decision. It was all triggered by a fuel bill that had gone from £45 a month to £110.
