The Pension Service, a Government run initiative set up under the Department of Work and Pensions, has launched a Pension Tracing Service.
The service locates those pension schemes details that may be lost by individuals by way of access to a database of over 200,000 occupational or personal pension schemes. The Pension Service says its new initiative aims to re-unite people with any unclaimed pension benefits, at no cost to the user. It says: “If you have changed jobs a number of times through your working life and have lost contact with a previous employer and their pension scheme, we may be able to provide you with an up-to-date contact address for a pension scheme and you can then use this information to contact the pe...
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