30 October is National Pension Tracing Day – experts estimate there is over £19.4bn of unclaimed pension pots. Could some of that money be yours?
A big factor is people changing jobs – on average 11 times – and moving house, typically eight times, but forgetting to tell their pension company. It’s set to get worse. The Department for Work and Pensions believes that, by 2050, there may be as many as 50 million lost pensions.