UPDATE: Funderraiser For 88-Year-Old Forced To Work At A Supermarket Because GM Took His Pension Away Has Nearl 1.5 Million Dollar Raised For Him In Donations Already!

Internet users have raised nearly $1.5M for an 88-year-old US Army veteran to help him retire after his pension was wiped out.

Ed Bambas lost his wife 7 years ago and is now working 40 hours a week to make ends meet.

Bambas retired from General Motors in 1999, expecting to have a stable pension.

When GM went bankrupt in 2009, Bambas and nearly 20,000 others at GM subsidiary Delphi Corporation lost their pensions and retirement benefits.

"The thing that hurt me the most was when my wife was really sick," Bambas said to influencer Sam Weidenhofer.

"And when they took the pension, they also took the healthcare coverage and all but $10,000 of my life insurance."

"So I sold my house, sold the property I had, and we made it through."

When his wife passed away in 2018, Bambas says he had to "re-establish" himself and decided to go back to work.

"I'm fortunate God gave me enough body to be strong enough to stand there for eight, eight-and-a-half hours a day," Bambas said to local news outlet WXYZ.

Weidenhofer says he heard about Bambas from a follower and set out to find him in Michigan.

After finding him and sharing his story on TikTok, online users helped raise nearly $1.5M for him.

God bless him and all those who donated.