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This is not a list of all people due pensions from PBGC. It is a list only of those people whom we have not yet been able to contact directly.

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• Who are we looking for?

  When a company's pension plan is transferred to PBGC, the company is sometimes unable to locate persons who participated in that plan and is hence unable to give them any benefits they may be owed. PBGC is now continuing to look for them through the "Missing Participants" service.

  Please note that the person should have participated in a "defined benefit" pension plan in a privately owned company that terminated and then transferred the plan to PBGC. "Defined benefit" pension plans are traditional pension plans which promise to pay a specific monthly amount to participants when they retire. Plans such as profit-sharing or 401(k) plans are not considered defined benefit plans. PBGC does not insure federal pension plans.

• What will missing participants get?

  A missing participant may receive one of the following:

  • An annuity from a private insurance company, purchased by their former company
  • Funds deposited in a financial institution, such as a bank by their former company
  • Benefits from PBGC (if the former company transferred the missing person's funds to PBGC)
  • No benefits, if there were no provisions made for that under their previous pension plan

• What if the participant is deceased?

  If the participant is deceased, please inform PBGC so that we can remove his/her name from our "missing participants" list. See Report the death of a PBGC participant.

  If you are a beneficiary of the missing participant, you may be eligible to get some benefits. If you find the participant's name here, contact PBGC to find out if you are entitled to some benefits. Beneficiaries would normally receive payments lower than what the participant would have received.