Did you earn a retirement benefit from a private-sector employer who lost track of you when your plan ended? If so, your employer may have transferred those benefits to PBGC for safekeeping.
PBGC holds unclaimed benefits for people that were not paid when their retirement plan ended. To help connect them to their benefit, PBGC has created a searchable database.
Please keep in mind that a match is not a confirmation that you are owed a benefit, but instead, the completion of a first step of a multi-step process confirming your possible entitlement to a benefit from PBGC. If there is an initial match, you’ll need to call PBGC to provide additional identifying information. During this step of the process, you may be informed that your additional details do not match.
Enter your last name and the last four digits of your Social Security number.
The database is updated quarterly. The most recent update was August 5, 2026.
Privacy Act Statement
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is collecting your personally identifiable information (PII) to locate participants, alternate payees, and beneficiaries of defined benefit and defined contribution plan funds who may be owed benefits as the result of a terminated plan or defined contribution plan whose funds are held under the control or authority of the PBGC. By providing PBGC with your last name and last 4 digits of your Social Security Number, you are consenting to PBGC using this information to determine if it has records that meet that initial match. If you fail to provide this information, we will be unable to run a search for records related to you. PBGC is authorized to collect this information under 29 U.S.C. 1055, 1056(d)(3), 1302, 1321, 1322, 1322a, 1341, 1342, and 1350; 29 U.S.C. 1203; 44 U.S.C. 3101; 5 U.S.C. 301. For further information, please visit PBGC’s Unclaimed Retirement Funds SORN.