Tracing a company pension i paid into years ago

oliel

Hi there

I paid onto a company pension at a national newspaper I worked at back in the early 1990's, which I had forgotten about until about 5 years ago when I got a letter from a company called Sterling pensions, which talked about changes to the pension. Its said they would be in contact again however I never heard anything. I can only assume they got my address through my ni number and I do recall I had a fair bit of money in the pension. I cannot find the letter now and wondered how I would go about trying to track this pension down? I have emailed a company with the name of Sterling that I found on the internet but I do not know if they are the right people. How do I tract this pension down to find out whats happening with it?

Thanks

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antrobus

Try the Pension Tracing Service:-

https://www2.dwp.gov.uk/tps-directgov/en/contact-tps/pension-tracing-form.asp

or

Contact the Pension Tracing Service by phone

You can phone the Pension Tracing Service on:
Tel: 0845 6002 537 (lines are open 8.00 am to 6.00 pm)
Tel: +44 191 215 4491 (if you're dialling from overseas)
Textphone: 0845 3000 169

Contact the Pension Tracing Service by post

You can also trace your pension by writing to the Pension Tracing Service:
Pension Tracing Service
The Pension service
Tyneview Park
Whitley Road,
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE98 1BA

Bigmoney2

http://www.pension-tracing-service.com/

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Pensionsandretirementplanning/Companyandpersonalpensions/DG_10027189

Have a look at the links above, its fairly staight forward. They wil find th current address for you to contact.

BargainMad_3

Yes certainly use the DIRECT GOV link above - they are based in Newcastle.

But be aware that whilst they are helpful, they will only be able to give an address or contact details for you to then pursue. As far as I am aware they do not do the actual tracing for you - that's down to you once you know who and where to write to.


The first link above is a private tracing service who probably will do the same but their overall objective is to then "advise" you what to do - i.e. can you cash it in and can they then take a commission from this. Just be aware of this.