When Paul Haresnape was packing up his belongings during a house move, he was surprised to find an old piece of paper that said he had £2,000 in a Barclays personal pension.
According to the document, Paul had paid £30 a month into the pension for a year while he worked in a hotel in the late 1980s.
Paul, 58, says he had forgotten about the account and assumed it must be worth very little but decided to investigate. An email to Barclays revealed the pension policy had been transferred to a pension provider called ReAssure.
When he contacted this group, he was
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