Older workers and retirees who have lost track of retirement savings from a previous employer may benefit from a relatively new resource to help them reunite with those funds.
Of the 236,269 unique visitors who logged onto the Labor Department’s Retirement Savings Lost and Found database from its launch in late December 2024 through the end of 2025, about 29.5% — 69,712 — found an old 401(k), pension or other workplace retirement plan associated with their Social Security number, according to data provided to CNBC by the agency.
The database currently only includes information that pertains to people age 65 or older.
While DOL doesn’t track what happens after that information is provided to the user — and notes on the website that a positive match is not a guarantee of money to claim — there’s a good chance that many of the users were reconnected with lost retirement funds, said Samuel Krause, a partner with Hall Benefits Law in Los Angeles whose practice areas include employee benefits and retirement plans.
“We may not be talking about any serious money, but of that [29.5%] who got a positive result, most of them” probably found an old account, Krause said.
