Wound up pension. Lost forever?

Angler

Apologies if I've missed anything relevant when searching.
Around 3 or 4 years ago I began to wonder about pension plans from previous employers and contacted a couple of them.
One sent me an acknowledgement and said that I would get updates on their plan at roughly yearly intervals. The last one I received was late in 2013. Reading through the latest email on tracing old pensions made me remember it and that I hadn't heard anything for a long time. A quick search on the net led me to a statement that the scheme was being wound up - Dated Feb 2014 - and asking previous employees to register their interest within 2 months. This obviously long since passed. I received no notifications through the post and I am still at the same address where I received previous correspondence.
Has my pension been lost forever?
Do you think I should try to write to the administrator named on the Notice?
The company I worked for was taken over by another company who are still trading (and they are a big company), it was they who decided to wind the scheme up and issued the Notice, via The Gazette. I'm disappointed that I had no notification from them.
Any thoughts? Perhaps it wasn't much but I was there for 5 years or so and hate the thought that the payments I made may have been wasted.
Thanks.

Linton

I would expect the pension still to be in existence, possibly transferred to a private pension. Suggest you talk to the people who issued the notice in 2014.

xylophone

http://www.pensionsadvisoryservice.org.uk/pension-problems/pension-security/your-scheme-is-winding-up

It would seem that you should have been kept advised?

In the first instance, contact the administrator?

anmarj

Check with these and see if they have taken it over

http://www.pensionprotectionfund.org.uk/Pages/homepage.aspx

MoneySavingUser

Normally for people who don't want to transfer out or can't be contacted they are transferred to a bulk buyout policy.

So most likely your pension is still there. As Linton says try the contact details on the notice.