Recent data from insurance giant Aviva shows that one in six divorcing couples were unaware that splitting up could affect their ability to draw a suitable pension in retirement.
Of the 1,000 divorcees polled, less than 10 per cent even had any pension savings of their own. This means that they are still financially reliant on their former partner for their income in older age.
One in three of those divorced people said that they had not made a single claim on their ex-partner's pension pot, with one in five doing so even if that made them poorer in retirement.
