Change description : 2026-06-08 16:41:00: Replaced the ‘Request response for customer traces form’ ODS form BLF1015 with the interactive PDF form DML1000 and updated Bulk Letter Forwarding service: guidance. [Guidance and regulation]
DWP provides a tracing and letter forwarding service for pension, insurance companies and solicitors to forward beneficial information to customers, usually about pensions or insurance policies. This is called the Bulk Letter Forwarding service.
Every effort must have been made to trace the person concerned before asking us to forward any letters. There is a charge for this service.
Published revised versions of the 'Request response for customer traces (BLF1015)' and 'Request response for customer traces (BLF1015): Visual aid' forms. Both forms have been updated with a new email address:<bulkletterforwarding.servicesenquiries@dwp.gov.uk>
3 October 2023
Updated Bulk Letter Forwarding service, sections 1: About the Bulk Letter Forwarding service, 2: Complete the relevant forms, 3: Attaching your letter, 6: Send the letter to the Bulk Letter Forwarding service and 8: Contact.
5 October 2021
Updated the 'Bulk Letter Forwarding Service Guidance'. Replaced the wording ‘We cannot forward letters on behalf of Debt Collection Agencies or Commercial Tracing Agencies’ with ‘We cannot forward letters on behalf of Debt Collection Agencies, Commercial Tracing Agencies or in respect of matrimonial and divorce matters’.
21 January 2021
Updated the 'Bulk Letter Forwarding Service Guidance' and removed 'Request an individual response for each customer' (BLF1010). Replaced the wording 'Request a Bulk reply for multiple queries' (BLF1015) with 'Request response for customer traces' (BLF1015). Also added 'Request response for customer traces (BLF1015): Visual aid' document.
1 June 2019
Updated the opening times of the Bulk Letter Forwarding service to 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday.
5 February 2019
Replaced the guidance and the BLF1010 and BLF1015 forms with updated versions, following a change in address and phone numbers.
4 February 2019
Changed Bulk Letter Forwarding (BLF) phone number to: 0800 15 13198.
15 June 2018
Published revised Bulk Letter Forwarding Service leaflet with added information on 'boxes of work' on page 4.
28 March 2018
Changed the postal address of the Bulk Letter Forwarding Service to - Department for Work and Pensions, Bulk Letter Forwarding Service, Mail Handling Site A, Wolverhampton, WV98 2DU
6 February 2017
Revised the bulk letter forwarding PDF - changes to payment of invoices using Automatic Credit Transfer (ACT) bank details.
29 October 2015
Removed the Bulk Letter Forwarding customer charter. It is included in the DWP customer charter.