Search Firms-Missing Participants

[Guest MEWilson]

Has anyone worked with a search firm locating missing participants that you can recommend at a reasonable fee??

[Guest lhinson]

Just curious, did you try the IRS letter forwarding program? If you are trying to track down missing participants the IRS will forward up to 49 letters in a 12 month period for free (over 49 is a little pricey). My clients that have utilized this service did meet with varying degrees of success.

[Guest MEWilson]

Thanks for the inquiry; however I am actually just interested in finding a reliable search firm if anyone has used one.

[Guest jetfaninmn]

The IRS program is a great tool for our firm.

[stephen]

I have clients who have had success with www.accurint.com

[Beltane]

We have used www.apscreen.com sucessfully. Phone number is 800 277 2733. I think its $ 10 per search.

[Guest MEWilson]

Thanks for your help!

[Guest susanm@pbinfo.com]

My company Pension Benefit Information locates missing participants. We perform a comprehensive search that uses addresses obtained from credit reporting agencies, verifies the participant is alive, looks for a beneficiary if deceased, and uses the IRS Forwarding Service to locate participants that are not active in credit databases or do not respond. We provide call center support and a postage paid envelope to make it esy for the participant to respond.

I will be happy to send you additional information. You can email me at susanm@pbinfo.com.

[Guest Wolves1962]

I have used the yahoo search locater and it was worked quite well.

[RCK]

We used the Berwyn Group, www.berwyngroup.com.

We had quick turnaround and decent reliability of results. I seem to recall they had a "budget" version that we used, and more intensive and expensive version that we did not try. Results first time were good enough that we went back to them the second time.