Help! Lost track of old pensions

[Pegs11]

Hi, for a legal thing I need to disclose the capital total value of my pension. I am in my 40s now, and seem to have kept no paperwork relating to pension funds I had when I was in my 20s… it never occurred to me back then that I would need to keep a record of such things… I think I just assumed all of a person’s pension info would be stored in some central data repository somewhere and I could just call a phone number and be told how much I had in my pension. But no. Apparently my only option is to look on the gov. website, where they keep a list of businesses and their current pensions providers. But if they’ve changed providers since I worked there, this doesn’t really help me. What can I do? Do I have to call each business I worked for and ask who their pensions provider was back in the early 2000’s…!?! There must be another way…?!? Help!

Don't you get an annual update/statement from each pension provider? I do, even for ones from the early 90's that I only paid into for about 6 months, but you may not if you have moved and not updated your address with them.

The Pensions Tracing Service may help: pensionsadviceuk.com/free-pension-tracing-service/?gxid=14576683653&gclid=Cj0KCQjwkOqZBhDNARIsAACsbfJIOyvrZDAVwE5DU9g8kM6ZCletenCsZZrv0UqYXZpPHJpfkNNi708aAgdOEALw_wcB

@IamSmarticus I’ve moved house a squillion times since I started working and almost certainly wouldn’t have thought to inform whatever pension provider my employer was using at the time…. Let alone be able to remember all my previous addresses 😅

@emsyj37 I didn’t know about this - thanks! Will give it a go ☺️