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Evening Standard
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Jonathan Prynn

Widow’s £160,000 pension fight with City giant

Claire Meier’s husband passed away from leukaemia in 2021 and she is battling to receive his pensions

(Picture: Daniel Hambury/Stella Pictures L)

A London widow is in dispute with one of the world’s biggest financial services giants after it clawed back most of her husband’s workplace pension pot following his sudden death.

Claire Meier was left to raise their young son alone when her husband Mark Underhill died from leukaemia in 2021 at the age of 46 just three weeks after a shock diagnosis.

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