Possible old pension, is there an easy way to check ?

[Dave7]

Just cogitating (as you do) and I realise that I worked for a local but large** company for about 8 years in the 70s **(they had 8 factories producing wire products).
I have no idea if I or they had a pension scheme......I assume they must have done.
Bit late in the day but there may be some L/S somewhere.

 

[ianrauk]

Go to www.gov.uk
You can use your NI number or company name to track an old pension

 

[Mo1959]

Dave, did you not say a few months back about getting money you weren’t sure about? Could this be it?

 

[Dave7]

Dave, did you not say a few months back about getting money you weren’t sure about? Could this be it?

No Mo......the company you refer to are a BIG multinational. They actually paid me a l/s of £15K plus £1,800 per year.

 

[Dave7]

Go to www.gov.uk
You can use your NI number or company name to track an old pension

Thank you....I will try that route.
The possible problems are.......
A. That group of companies had a management buy out 20+ years ago and
B. I am vague about the dates I worked there.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Just did a search @Dave7 on Google & multiple companies came up first but scrolling down I found https://www.gov.uk/find-pension-contact-details got to be worth a try.

 

[ColinJ]

It is definitely worth checking.

I only paid for 2 years into one pension scheme back in the 1980s. I forgot about it for over 30 years. Once I finally remembered, I wrote to the pension fund managers. Apparently, I had forgotten to notify them of my change of address so they had been sending annual pension scheme report letters to me at my old address for decades!

When I turned 60 I got a few thousand pounds lump sum, and I now get about £50/month. It's not a fortune, but it pays for bike spares and cafe visits on rides.