When someone has died
Family members
Search the person's old employers the same way you'd search your own: employer and years. The report shows where each plan's money went and a letter to ask for the records. As a beneficiary or executor, you sign it and add a copy of the death certificate.
Not sure where they worked? Social Security's earnings record lists every employer. How to get it
Estate attorneys
For estate attorneys and executors handling several matters. Enter the decedent's past employers and years (from the Social Security earnings record). We trace each employer's retirement plans through public filings, including plans that merged, ended or stopped filing, and show who holds the money today, whether it is likely payable to a beneficiary or the estate, and a records request the executor can sign.