Mum quits NHS for pension to pay soaring bills - before dying of Covid, leaving orphaned kids penniless
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe son of a tragic hospital cleaner today tells how she cashed in her NHS pension to pay a rocketing electricity bill - just two months before she died of Covid-19 last week.
But now her heartbreaking decision has left her girls without a mother – and penniless too. Judith Thorpe, 49, took her pension in desperation to protect her two teenage daughters from worrying about family finances during the cost-of-living crisis – and to make sure they had new school shoes and jumpers.
But the family will miss out on a potential £30,000 of death in membership benefits – all because of a fuel bill that more than doubled from £45 to £110.
Now orphaned Hannah, 16, and Scarlett, 13 – whose dad John Lydon died of cancer in 2015 – are being cared for by their 24-year-old half- brother Lewis and his partner.
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