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Trustees of Columbia University C/O Benefits Department: who to call about your old retirement account
Retirement Plan for Building and Maintenance Employees of Columbia University Properties. NEW YORK, NY. From the plan’s 2025 filing with the U.S. Department of Labor.
Good news: this plan is still running.
It filed for 2025, 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
- Trustees of Columbia University C/O Benefits DepartmentHas also filed as Trustees of Columbia University C/O Retirement Department, Trustees of Columbia University
- Address on file
- New York, NY · 10027
- Industry
- Educational Services
- Plan
- Retirement Plan for Building and Maintenance Employees of Columbia University PropertiesPension plan
- When
- Start date on the filing: 1976Still running: latest filing is for 2025Has filed since at least 2009
- Size
- about 600 people in the plan, about $45 million in totalabout 230 of them no longer work there and are still owed a benefit from it. Leaving a job does not cancel a pension you earned.
- You may remember
- • Covers union employees
Not the right one? Trustees of Columbia University C/O Benefits Department has 5 other retirement plans:
- Columbia University Voluntary Retirement Savings Plan · Retirement savings plan · about 40,000 people · filed 2024
- Retirement Plan for Officers of Columbia University · Retirement savings plan · about 34,000 people · filed 2024
- Columbia University Defined Contribution Plan for Supporting Staff · Retirement savings plan · about 4,500 people · filed 2024
- Columbia University Defined Contribution Plan - Supporting Staff Association At the College of Physicians and Surgeons · Retirement savings plan · about 3,700 people · filed 2024
- Columbia University Retirement Plan - Local 241, Transport Workers Union of America · Retirement savings plan · about 1,800 people · filed 2025
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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 TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY C/O BENEFITS DEPARTMENT. 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.