How to Find an Old 401(k) Account

How to Find an Old 401(k) Account

It happens to a lot of people: You leave a job with every intention of rolling over your 401(k), but then you get busy with the next thing in your life and that account doesn’t seem so important anymore. Forgotten 401(k)s can go unclaimed for years, but they’ve become a bigger problem since the pandemic-era Great Resignation. According to a 2024 report by Capitalize, a company specializing in 401(k) rollovers, about 29.2 million forgotten 401(k)…