New York Backstretch Employees Pension Plan: who to call about your old retirement account

New York Backstretch Employees Pension Plan. ELMONT, NY. From the plan’s 2024 filing with the U.S. Department of Labor.

Good news: this plan is still running.

It filed for 2024, so if you left money in it, the account should still be there under your name. One phone call usually finds it.

Is this your plan?

From the plan’s public filings. Check that it sounds like the place you worked.

Employer: New York Backstretch Employees Pension PlanHas also filed as New York Backstretch Employees Pension Trust
Address on file: Elmont, NY · 11003
Industry: Arts, Entertainment & Recreation
Plan: New York Backstretch Employees Pension PlanPension plan
When: Start date on the filing: 1971Still running: latest filing is for 2024Has filed since at least 2009
Size: about 2,000 people in the plan, about $55 million in totalabout 840 of them no longer work there and are still owed a benefit from it. Leaving a job does not cancel a pension you earned.

Not the right one? New York Backstretch Employees Pension Plan has another retirement plan:

N.Y. Backstretch Ee's Pension Trust 401K Plan · Pension plan · 3 people · filed 2025

Doesn’t sound like it? Search again. Try the company’s legal name, or the name it had when you worked there.

Get this plan’s contact details, free

Tell us where to send them and we’ll email you a link that opens:

✓ The phone number on the plan’s filing
✓ What to say on the call, word for word
✓ The plan ID numbers they will ask you for

If nobody can find you

These official and non-profit registries are free:

DOL Abandoned Plan Search ↗
plans wound down by a custodian after the employer walked away
DOL Retirement Savings Lost & Found ↗
the Department of Labor’s registry of accounts owed to former participants
National Registry of Unclaimed Retirement Benefits ↗
employers and plan administrators list balances they could not deliver
Your state’s unclaimed property office ↗
uncashed distribution checks often end up here

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401kHunter is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to NEW YORK BACKSTRETCH EMPLOYEES PENSION PLAN. Plan figures on this page come from public U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings and reflect the plan’s final reported year. This page is educational and is not investment, tax, or legal advice.