Pension Tracing Service requests double; 12% of pots remain lost

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Last year saw a big increase in the number of people attempting to find lost pension pots through the government's Pension Tracing Service, according to official statistics.

The service received 144,169 requests for traces in 2013-14, up from 107,335 in 2012-13 and approximately 77,000 in each of the previous years. It was unable to find the pots of 17,265 savers la...

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