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You did not forget your pension. Most people never knew they had one.

Independent, evidence-based Pension Identification Reports in 41 countries, for people at home or abroad, and for the executors, trustees and advisers who act for them.

Every report is read by a human researcher before it is sent.

Find my pensions

60 secondsyour LinkedIn profile or a few quick questionsno charge

Acting for someone who has died? Start here.

The cause

Why this happens

Schemes do not lose the money. They lose the person.

A pension is opened in your name. You move on, and then you move house. The scheme writes to an address you left years ago. The employer is bought, renamed or wound up, and the scheme passes to an administrator you have never heard of. Nothing is stolen and nothing expires. The file sits there with an address that stopped working.

The long version, with sources: the non-resident gap

The self test

Could this be you?

Four questions. Tap the ones that are true for you.

Try it yourself. We publish the official pension portal for every country we cover, free. If you can get in, start there. For one country it may be all you need. It will not show you what the other countries hold, and in many countries the portal covers the state pension only.

The evidence

See exactly what you get, before you decide.

If you have been putting this off for years, you are exactly who we built this for. Pensions are rarely gone: usually the scheme simply lost track of you. Three minutes of rough memories is all it takes to start, and this is what you get back.

Where did you work?

Choose a country. The sample below rebuilds for that country's system.

Every country our identification work covers is shown here. Where a sample is already written the tile rebuilds the sample below. Every other tile opens that country's own guide page. The full list also sits on all countries.

This is the United Kingdom sample, produced by the same methodology that runs every real case.

Provider and register names are real. The client and employers are fictional. No real records were accessed or exist.

Every report contains:

  • Every administrator identified, with verified contact route
  • The exact request to make of each, spelled out
  • Your State Pension position and the deadlines that apply
  • Sources and a confidence rating on every finding
  • Human review before release
    HUMAN REVIEWED · PENSIONHUNTER RESEARCH TEAM ·

All we need to start is your name, date of birth and your work history from memory. Approximate dates are fine.

The report is yours to keep: file it, hand it to your family. If anything ever happens to you, it is how they will know what exists and where.

Three sample findings for United Kingdom

  • Sample finding · United Kingdom

    Your employer was dissolved in 2004. That ended the company. It did not end the pension. We traced the scheme through every rename and transfer to the administrator who answers for it today, and every step is a public register entry with its date, not a guess.

    See the United Kingdom sample report

  • Sample finding · United Kingdom

    Your employment falls in years when schemes of this kind commonly contracted out of the additional State Pension, so guaranteed minimum pension equalisation may apply to your benefit. Arrears can be raised in writing with the administrator once your record is confirmed, and the request in this report already positions that question.

    See the United Kingdom sample report

  • Sample finding · United Kingdom

    Gaps in your National Insurance record can still be filled, and each open year carries its own deadline. Your report sets out which years are open to you and the deadline that applies to each, because the window narrows year by year as older years fall away.

    See the United Kingdom sample report

Our edge

Why PensionHunter finds what others miss

Your report lands with the evidence, the contacts and every request written and ready to send. Start the same day, with the research team behind you.

  • A national portal usually shows one system. In many countries it covers the state pension only, and says nothing about a workplace scheme held by a former employer's administrator. A working life abroad usually produces both. We identify both, and set out where you stand on each.

  • Read the method in fullEvery step we take, written down, before you spend anything.

The process

How it works

What you are asking for

Not this

You are not asking us to claim your pension.

This

You are asking us to identify who holds it.

The fee

What it costs

$99

delivered within 48 hours: who holds a workplace pension in your name, in which country, on what evidence, and where you stand on the state pension there. Fixed fee. Full refund if we find nothing material.

The Pensions Policy Institute counts 31.1 billion pounds sitting in 3.3 million forgotten UK workplace pensions, an average of 9,470 pounds each. Source: Pensions Policy Institute, Briefing Note 138, 2024.

Worth knowing

Most pension entitlements do not expire, but a few do: in some countries the right to ask runs out, or the money moves to another government department.

See the full pricing, including Enhanced and Global

Who this is for

If one of these is you, there is probably a record with your name on it.

  • You worked in more than one country

    Every country you worked in keeps its own record, and none of them talk to each other.

  • Your old employer changed, merged or closed

    The company name on your payslip is often no longer the name that holds the pension.

  • You moved, and the post stopped

    Statements go to the last address a provider had for you. Silence is not the same as nothing.

  • You are looking on behalf of a parent or an estate

    Families need one document that names what exists and who holds it.

On the record

We write to national pension authorities and publish what they say back.

Twenty-six
authorities have replied to us in writing.
53
systems studied, publishing Thursday 1 October 2026.
"Sporocamo vam, da taksne javno dostopne evidence ne vodimo. Tovrstne primere obravnavamo posamezno in zaradi varstva osebnih podatkov v konkretnih primerih niso objavljeni"

Our English rendering

We do not maintain such publicly accessible records; such cases are handled individually and, for personal data protection reasons, are not published in specific instances.

Slovenia, ZPIZ13 August 2026

Get your affairs in order

The folder your family hopes exists.

The will is done. The house papers are filed. A pension nobody knows about is a pension nobody receives.

Already holding a report for someone who has died? Start here.

  • The will
  • The insurance
  • The house papers
  • The pensions

The row most families are missing.

Questions before you start?

Ask us anything: your countries, your situation, how the Pension Identification Report works. A researcher replies personally.

Start with the free check. You may be surprised what has your name on it.

Find my pensions

A real person reads every check that comes in, usually the same day.

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Last updated: · Available in 41 countries