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Everything we publish is free.

The work we do for one person is not.

How a pension system works, who runs it, whether it can be reached from abroad and what it publishes about the people it cannot find is general knowledge, and general knowledge belongs to everyone. Research into one named person, in named countries, is work that somebody pays for. That is the whole of the distinction.

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  • Deadline register

    Dated pension obligations that expire, destroy money or suspend payment

  • The pension scoreboard

    What each of the 47 national systems on the scoreboard publishes about the money it holds for members it cannot reach, and what it does not.

  • The reachability study

    We are putting the same six questions in writing to the responsible authority in each of the 54 pension systems we have studied. That correspondence is in progress. We publish every reply exactly as it is given to us, and the results publish on 1 October 2026.Written to 53 of 54 systems so far. 15 replies address the six questions; 14 are published and 1 is with the authority for review before publication.

  • Authority answers

    Replies from authorities, quoted verbatim and dated

  • Government portals

    The government pension portals of 53 systems, with the route into each one.

  • The Uncounted 2026

    The hub over all four parts of this research

  • The non-resident gap

    Why Europe's pension infrastructure does not reach people who left

  • Migrant worker pensions

    What happens to a pension when the worker goes home

This dataset is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). You may republish or build on it, including commercially, with attribution to PensionHunter, pensionhunter.ai/scoreboard.

What we charge for

We charge for research about one named person: which countries hold something in that person's name, who exactly holds it, and the exact route to each holder. The free check comes first and costs nothing, and it tells you whether there is anything worth looking for.

The fees are set out on the pricing page.

What we will not do

  • We do not give financial advice.
  • We take no percentage and no commission, and we never touch anyone's money.
  • We do not publish the name of any individual official.
  • We publish corrections in full, with the source and the date, beside the original.
  • We publish what institutions tell us whether or not it helps us.

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