Deceased Person Pension/Account Hunt

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Has anyone ever dealt with hunting down pensions of deceased persons?

No will was left, and for reasons I don’t really want to get into on a public forum, I’m of the view that we didn’t have all the details when we dealt with the estate and some accounts may have been hidden by others or plainly not know of. I suspect there’s another bank account, and I suspect there’s an additional pension or two.

It’s been ten years since the person died, and I’m just wondering if anyone has done similar and how they went about it.

I don’t have any paperwork for the deceased accounts I know about, but I’m happy requesting these (if banks hold these for such lengths).
I’ve done the Pension Finder tool on the government website so was going to contact them and ask for next steps there but just curious if anyone else has done this before and any tips.

When the estate was settled it was split three way. I’m the sole executor of the estate, and if anything was found I’d split it that way.
To be honest, I can’t fully remember what was discussed at the time with relation to other accounts and pensions and some was found but not convinced it all was.
 
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Are you in contact with the current occupiers of the last address of the deceased ? Royal mail post redirect usually runs out after a year, so if anyone's been trying to send annual statements those could just have ended up in the bin - or just returned with "not known at this address" written on.

After 10 years though ... good luck :(
 
Are you interested in professional help or only doing it yourself? I say this because there's a programme called Will Hunters on TV, and the company featured on it probably knows how to do this.

I would not be surprised if this kind of thing can be searched for on social security number by people in the pensions industry, i.e. there is a collective database of some sort. Have you tried asking a pensions company?
 
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