What is the Pension Tracing Service?

The service helps people locate lost, forgotten or undisclosed pension funds. It enables individuals to search a database of more than 320,000 pension scheme contact details to find information about their old pensions.

The service is particularly helpful where one spouse is not being honest about their pension assets. If you have your spouse’s national insurance number, an application can be made to the Court to search against all of your spouse’s past and current employers.

The search will not provide the value of the pension, but it will confirm whether pensions exist, and where to write for more information.