State pensioners are being urged to claim a total of £6,600 in benefits they are entitled to but missing out on.

Two key groups who campaign for pensioners, charity Age UK as well as the Rothesay Foundation, conducted a study and found that 76 percent of pensioners were not claiming benefits they were entitled to – worth an average of £6,600 each.

The biggest absent benefits were Pension Credit, Attendance Allowance and Housing Benefit but if you start a new claim now for any of these three,…