The lost £19bn: how to trace those forgotten pension pots

As people move jobs they can leave behind funds and forget about them. With 10 million auto-enrolled in workplace pensions, the issue is getting more acute

The era of the job for life is over. Whereas once many workers could expect to spend their whole career in the same company, now they shift from one to the next as better opportunities present themselves, redundancies force movement or they opt for a change in direction. Our lives have changed so much that research suggests that average workers will have 11 different jobs during their life.

As they move from one employer to the next, they build up new pension funds. But, for many, when they leave a job, those same funds are left behind.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/30mLnvc