Weird world: the week's oddest pensions news

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It's our quick-fire round-up of the stangest retirement and pensions news this week...

Family hid gran's corpse to pocket £211 pension A mother and daughter kept the corpse of a grandmother hidden in an upstairs bedroom and stole her state pension, a judge ruled. Olive Maddock, 95, was left leaning behind a door in her bedroom in Wallasey for between two and six months after her death by her daughter Hazel Maddock and granddaughter Jasmine Maddock, the Independent reports. Hazel Maddock pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court of unlawful prevention of burial as well as fraudulently obtaining a single state pension payment of £176.92 and a single payment of pension cre...

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