Where did my old pension go, and how do I find it?

You worked there. You remember the desk, the badge, maybe the parking lot. Somewhere in that time, money went into a pension in your name. Then you left, the company changed hands or closed, and the paper trail went cold. This is not a failure of your memory. Pension records scatter across old mergers, shut-down offices, and government filings nobody ever taught you to read. Reason asks a plain question: does a system that hides a person's own money from them serve that person, or only the ones who already know where to look? You do not have to untangle this alone. Split the search among your pod. One person checks one database, another checks a second, another calls a phone number. Four people searching in parallel find the answer far faster than one person searching by themselves.