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Thousands of people living in Bolton are missing out on millions of unclaimed government funds. The latest figures released from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, along with Greater Manchester Housing Providers such as Bolton at Home, suggests as many as 4,777 residents could be eligible to benefit from £8m of unclaimed pension credit. Housing providers are stepping-up efforts to ensure more eligible pensioners don’t miss out on the support they are owed by working with local communities to encourage and help pension credit applications. While 73,000 people across the region currently use pension credit to top up their weekly budget and reduce daily household costs, around one in three pensioners around Greater Manchester aren’t accessing the support available to them, with single women living alone the least likely to claim for their support.