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Reclaimed old bank accounts/savings/investments/pensions? Success stories wanted!

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MSE_Laura_F Posts: 1,609 MSE Staff
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edited 28 October 2021 at 11:14AM in Savings & investments
Here's the new thread for letting us know you've Reclaimed lost cash, whether from bank accounts, premium bonds, pensions or investments.

We want to hear about all about your successes, including:

  • How much you got back
  • What sort of financial product it was
  • Which methods you used to reclaim it (My Lost Account, Pensions Tracing Service etc)
  • How long it took to get your money back

If you want to discuss the process in general, rather than share a success story, please use the Reclaim lost assets for free discussion.

Comments

  • scottaii
    scottaii Posts: 7 Forumite
    Third Anniversary First Post
    I've just signed up to the Gretel service mentioned in the article and it automatically pulled all of my previous addresses. However, it hasn't found anything yet, so fingers crossed it starts to find things over the months....
  • MSE_Laura_F
    MSE_Laura_F Posts: 1,609 MSE Staff
    Fifth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Good luck @scottaii - please let us know if there's an update.
  • Swipe
    Swipe Posts: 5,469 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    No success. I registered with my lost account but still waiting 2 months later for NSandI to get back to me with details of my lost childhood Post Office Counters savings account.
  • MSE_Laura_F
    MSE_Laura_F Posts: 1,609 MSE Staff
    Fifth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Has anyone had recent success with tracing a pension recently? I'd love to hear details.
  • This is the main reason I have just signed up to Gretel - if I have any success I'll feed back. 
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