UK savings and benefits: are you missing out on free cash?

Have you checked whether there is money you are entitled to? Photograph: Pekic/Getty Images

In a cost of living crisis every penny counts, so it’s never been more important to check you are getting everything that is rightfully yours.

Last year, retirement advisers at Just Group found that eight in 10 pensioner households eligible to claim benefits were failing to do so – and missing out on an average of £1,231 a year as a result.