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New Pension Tracing Service website launched 11 May 2016
A new DWP website has been launched by the Pension Tracing Service to help people find their lost pension savings.
There is currently an estimated £400 million in unclaimed pension savings. This is money people have previously saved for their retirement, and the new website will better help people to locate their hard-earned savings.
The wider pension reforms are creating a dynamic market where people have greater freedom and flexibility over their savings, and the DWP expect the reforms will increase demand for the Pension Tracing Service.
Minister for Pensions, Baroness Ros Altmann said:
“People have had on average 11 jobs during their working life which can mean they have as many work place pensions to keep track of.
The new DWP online Pension Tracing Service helps reunite people with their lost pensions, giving details of providers to help people track them down.
I’d encourage anyone who thinks they may be missing out on any savings to use the free online service .”
The new service is simple to use and provides trace results immediately. Individuals enter their former employers’ details into the online database and are provided with contact details for pension schemes they may have paid into. The service is free to use and enables people to search a database of more than 320,000 pension scheme administrators. The new website has been tested with users with 83% either satisfied or very satisfied with the service they received. There were 169,000 tracing requests in 2015/16 (this covers the online service, agent referred, telephony and postal channels). Over the past 10 years there has been a 436% increase in tracing requests.
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Pension schemes newsletter 78 18 May 2016
The latest newsletter published by HMRC includes clarification about modified reporting requirements for the annual allowance taper.
Other topics covered in Newsletter 78 are:
Pension flexibility statistics Secondary annuities - tax framework Double taxation – certificate of residence requests Registration statistics Lifetime allowance Contacting Pension Schemes Services
Payment date of uncrystallised funds pension lump sums (UFPLS) Pension flexibility - reporting of non-taxable death benefits through RTI Serious ill-health lump sums
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