An 88-year-old army veteran, who works five days a week at a supermarket to make ends meet, is to receive $1.7m (£1.3m) to help him retire.

While many of us dream of working towards a relaxing end to our working days, Ed Bambas was forced back into full-time work after losing his pension and funding medical bills for his sick wife.

Despite his age, he has been working eight-hour shifts, five days a week for the last five years at supermarket chain Meijer in Michigan, US – his main source of income.

Ed opened up about his financial struggles with Australian influencer Samuel Weidenhofer in a viral video, which has more than 9.3 million views and over 279,000 likes on Facebook. In the video, Ed explains he retired from General Motors in 1999, but lost his pension in 2012 after the company

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