It's a good news/annoying administrative news that will have to be dealt eventually situation.
The good news is I discovered some money that I was previously unaware about. It's in one of the retirement accounts my previous company set up for me. They never told me I had retirement money so I did nothing, and apparently the financial institution that held my money in the interim sent me a mail like the beginning of this year but it all looked like trash so I ignored it until now. I got rid of all the crap mail yesterday, figured it could be useful to make a hundred percent sure I wasn't missing something. And there was the mail, saying I had a couple of grand bones laying around in my retirement account!
I setup the transfer to my existing account, creating an extra IRA account on the way because apparently I only have 401k no rollover IRA. The website told me to mail them four hefty pages of documents with a printout of my driver's license which I never obtained. it's scary. But I'm working at it, and that feels like the most adult thing ever. Not the transfer itself, but the hassle I'm going through to make it right.
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