Stocks, whose story was first covered by The Sheffield Tribune last year, external, told the BBC: “It’s been an eight-year wild goose chase to find out where my pension has gone, when I should have been enjoying my retirement.
“It’s always there in the background. I enjoy an active life outdoors, cycling, walking and running, but it keeps coming back.
“There’s always lots of emails and information to process.”
In a ruling in 2022, the Pensions Ombudsman said Stocks could claim a refund of his own personal contributions to his pension pot from when he worked at the county council between 1981 and 1986, plus £500 in compensation.
He has since been offered a payout of just under £8,000 by the SYPA, but Stocks said this was “dramatically undervaluing” what he believed he was due, mainly because it did not include employer contributions.