Keeping track of your pensions can be a challenge – you may hold pensions from many years ago, or may have changed jobs multiple times, or moved house. All of these factors and more make it easy to lose track of your pensions. However, it is important you are sure you are claiming everything you are entitled to in retirement. If you want to find out more about tracing lost pensions, please see our Top ten tips to find lost pensions.

When looking for lost pensions, please make sure you use a legitimate site such as those mentioned in the link above and the MoneyHelper site as by simply typing ‘find lost pension’ into a search engine, what you get back is likely to be a mix of legitimate businesses who help people find their pensions, official government sites and – potentially – more questionable sites. This latter group may include people whose main focus is simply to get control of your money, perhaps charging you high fees for locating your money, high fees for investing it on your behalf and potentially even moving it to somewhere where you may lose some or all of it completely.