Pension Tracing Service to triple staff numbers

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The government's free Pension Tracing Service (PTS) will triple its staff number to 49 after experiencing an upsurge in demand last year.

It saw total contacts rise by a third to 144,169 in 2014 with 87% of cases resolved, compared to 93,975 enquiries and a success rate of 88% in 2013. Announced by the Department for Work and Pens...

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