How to find an old pension?

[RedwineSaturday]

I'm trying to get a better handle on money, pensions, savings etc and I recently remembered about a very old work pension I had paid into for a few years.

I worked for AXA Equity & Law in the Isle of Man and my pension was with them for a short while during the early 1990's. I think Axa is now owned by Aviva and I spoke to someone in Aviva about finding the old pension and hit a dead end. I don't have any paperwork here either.

Does anyone have any tips on how I can find out whether this old pension could be floating around out there somewhere?

Pension tracing service will find it for you

https://www.gov.uk/find-pension-contact-details

Odd you spoke to Aviva and hit a dead-end. I've got a pension with them and just this afternoon filled in their online tool asking them to trace a previous pension. I moved house and company just as they changed pension supplier and merged with a larger company so I'm hoping Aviva can find it for me.

The downside is, I didn't know till I'd completed the form that it can take 4 weeks to 6 months to get an answer! Get a Google on, Aviva do have a new tool, the person you spoke to just didn't know about it which is quite poor.

Your NI number will be linked to this pensipn and you can use the pension tracing service
https://www.moneyhelper.org.uk/en/pensions-and-retirement/pension-problems/tracing-and-finding-lost-pensions#:~:text=Contact%20the%20Pension%20Tracing%20Service&text=The%20Pension%20Tracing%20Service%20is,the%20contact%20details%20you%20need.

sorry X post!

good luck op

Thanks a million for the quick replies, hopefully I'll be able to get it sorted now!