In an ideal world, we’d all be completely on top of every aspect of our financial admin every second of every day. In the real world, things slide. However, if we mislay key documents, it can cause real headaches when we eventually need them, so it’s worth tracking down five of the most commonly-lost bits of paperwork. A Hargreaves Lansdown survey found that one in four people have lost track of old pensions, and another fifth think they might have done. It’s easily done, because most people are automatically put into a new pension each time they move jobs, so if they move house and forget to update their address, they can stop receiving paperwork and forget about an old pension entirely. It’s worth making the time to list everywhere you’ve worked during your career, and to hunt for your pension statements for each one. Read more: 5 ways to get help with childcare costs If you can’t find them, you can contact the government’s pension tracing service with the name of the company you worked for, the name of the pension scheme, or the name of the provider. Once you’ve found them all, you can consider bringing them together...