Lost Pension

Hugh_Jampton

Hi Moneysavers.
Does anyone know how I can find my pension?
I took out a personal pension in the late seventies with Target Finance, an index linked managed fund and a top performer. I was a joiner and when the building trade bit the dust at the end of the seventies I had to freeze my pension and never got round to restarting it! Target was taken over by TSB and they were swallowed up by Lloyds and now I don't know who holds it. The last correspondence I had was in 2007 but I have since moved house and cannot find any paperwork containing pension company or policy number. I have written to the Pension Tracing Service with my previous addresses and details but have had no luck with them.
I was 65 last June and no company has tried to trace me, it has been easy for my debtors to find me :mad:
Help please

dunstonh

I took out a personal pension in the late seventies with Target Finance, an index linked managed fund and a top performer.

Couple of things.

1 - personal pensions didnt exist until 1988. Prior to that you had Section 226 retirement annuity contracts and endowments.
2 - index linked managed funds are never likely to be top performers.

Target Life merged into Abbey Life.

Tel number: 0845 9600 900

address: Abbey Life, 100 Holdenhurst Rd, Bournemouth, BH8 8AL

Hugh_Jampton

Thanks for the info Dunstonh.
It was a long time ago and definatly before 1988, I'm sure it wasn't an endowerment so it must have been a section 26 I can't remember.
I had already written to Abbey Life but they say they have no record of any policy with my name or previous addresses.
So were do I go from here?

sabretoothtigger

Theres a website who track down lost bank accounts but I havent got their address right now.

You could send off data protection requests to random companies stating your present and past address asking for any information on yourself to be given.

If they were in contact 2007 then the info being on computer somewhere is quite likely

McKneff

Google Pension Tracing Service, my daughter used them not too long ago.

dunstonh

Pensions are usually filed under your NI number. So, thats a good way to get providers to search for it.

gerryco

You can trace lost pensions through the following government website

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Pensionsandretirementplanning/PlanningForRetirement/AboutToRetire/DG_10027189

usignuolo

Have you tried the Pensions Advisory Service?

Hugh_Jampton

Thanks for all your replies but before I had even posted on here I gave all my details including N.I number and previous addresses to the pension tracing service, they came up with Abbey Life which I had already contacted with no luck. Posting here was my last resort, now I,m lost for ideas????