FIND MONEY YOU'VE LOST
Find money you've lost
Old pensions, dormant accounts, Child Trust Funds and unclaimed prizes add up to a great deal sitting unclaimed in the UK. Here are the free, official places to look — nothing is saved, and Blooom earns nothing from these links.
You never pay to find your own money
You never need to PAY to trace a pension or a lost account — these are the free, official services. Avoid any company that charges a fee or a % to find your money.
Lost pensions
FreeThe government's Pension Tracing Service helps you find the contact details for a workplace or personal pension you've lost track of — useful for tracing a pot from an old employer.
Check on GOV.UKDormant bank & building-society accounts
Freemylostaccount is the official free search run by UK Finance, the Building Societies Association and NS&I to reunite people with dormant bank and building-society accounts.
Search mylostaccountLost accounts, pensions & investments
FreeGretel is a free service that searches across banks, pensions, investments and more in one place to help reconnect people with lost or dormant financial accounts.
Search on GretelChild Trust Funds
FreeIf you were born between 1 September 2002 and 2 January 2011, a Child Trust Fund was likely opened for you. GOV.UK's free tool helps you find where it's held. The average unclaimed amount is often cited at around £2,000 (illustrative — your own may differ).
Find a Child Trust Fund on GOV.UKUnclaimed Premium Bond prizes
FreeNS&I's official prize checker tells you whether your Premium Bonds have won a prize that's gone unclaimed — some prizes sit unclaimed for years.
Check on NS&IThe average unclaimed Child Trust Fund is often cited at around £2,000 — this is illustrative, and your own amount may be more or less.
A quick way to work through it
There's no need to do this all at once. A simple way to be thorough — nothing here is saved:
Every link here goes to a free, official service — GOV.UK, mylostaccount, Gretel and NS&I. Blooom earns nothing from them, and there's never any charge to trace your own money through these official routes.