A:Not at this number; hours here are Mon-Fri 8:30am-6pm EST.The least busy day is Monday, and the most busy day is Friday.Schedule a call when the call center is open and when it's convenient for you.
Q:
How long will I wait on hold?
A:The average hold time is 4 minutes.The longest hold times are on Wednesday, and the shortest are on Thursday.You can skip the hold time for free.
How do I get through the phone menu to a live person?
Consider using our free service that calls and talks to customer service for you, then sends you a report. Or use our free service that waits on hold and tells you when a human rep is on the line. But if those options don't appeal to you, our team has also documented the phone menu for Lord Abbett below.
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GetHuman researchers routinely call this Lord Abbett phone number to document the phone system.
Here is how our research team describes the way the Lord Abbett phone system greets you: Financial professional, press 1. Client account info, press 2. Group retirement plans, press 3. Privacy policy, press 4.
Here is our latest tip for weaving through the phone menu to get to a real person the fastest:Must choose an option 1-3.
Below are some clips we've found from Lord Abbett's phone menus and tips that help give an idea of what you will encounter when you call. We've highlighted why they are important as well:
Heard when the phone system first answers
"Thank you for calling Lord Abbott.
This call may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance purposes.
Please listen closely as our menu options have changed.
If you are a financial professional calling for Lord Abbott product information, please press one.
All individual investors or financial advisers calling for client account information, please press two.
If you need any duplicative copies of these forms, log on to our online portal to retrieve.
Please note form ten ninety nine d I v will not be created for accounts with taxable distributions less than ten dollars."
Excerpt from a call with Lord Abbett
Friday, February 2, 2024 1:03 AM
The first phone menu
"Thank you for calling Lord Abbott.
This call may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance purposes.
Please listen closely as our menu options have changed.
If you are a financial professional calling for Lord Abbott product information, please press one.
All individual investors or financial advisers calling for client account information, please press two."
Excerpt from a call with Lord Abbett
Friday, February 2, 2024 1:03 AM
What are the hours and when should I call?
Lord Abbett operates the call center for this 800-821-5129 phone number Mon-Fri 8:30am-6pm ET.The short answer is that you should call on a Monday.This observation and the following section are based on analysis of a sample set of 7,224 calls made in the last 90 days using our free, web-based phone (see above).
Call when they- and you- are open
When you use our free AI-powered phone to call and talk, wait on hold, or navigate for you, you can also schedule the call with Lord Abbett at a time when they are open and when it works for you. We will confirm you are ready before placing the call, just in case. That means you can "set it and forget it" ahead of time.
An important note: busy times vs hold times vs best time to call
When we refer to busy or less busy times, we are talking about the volume of calls. The busiest times are when the most people are calling this Lord Abbett phone number (least busy times have fewer people calling). This high call volume does not necessarily mean that you will have a long hold time when you call. Companies like Lord Abbett staff their call centers differently based on the time of day and day of the week, so you may experience a shorter wait on hold at the busiest of times. When we refer to the best time to call, we are referring to the optimal combination of lower call volume and shorter wait times.
The least busy time to call
The least busy day to call Lord Abbett is Monday.The most busy day to call is Friday.Again, this is based on a sample of 7,224 calls made with our AI-powered, web-based phone in the last 90 days.
The shortest wait on hold
We measured the shortest hold times to be on Thursday.The longest wait in the queue on average occurs on Wednesday.
In summation, the best day to call Lord Abbett is Monday.This is not the day with the shortest wait on hold in the phone system, but we still recommend it for its ideal combination of low call volume and short hold times. Plus we believe that Lord Abbett staffs the call center well on Monday.
Why Customers Call Lord Abbett
If you have time to do a bit of reading before you call Lord Abbett, we recommend you read over some of our problem-specific articles.
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More Lord Abbett Customer Service Contacts
There are of course other ways to contact Lord Abbett customer service besides the phone. Below we list the best ones, by medium.
Use this link or copy and paste it to send customer service an email
Corresponding with a customer service department by email may not be your first choice, especially if your issue is urgent or time-sensitive. But email is a nearly ubiquitous form of communication, and Lord Abbett will reply our your email.
As a last, sometimes only, resort- Lord Abbett customer service can be accessed through their website. This can entail digging through help articles before finding a form and "being allowed" to submit a problem to their team, and rarely leads to a real-time conversation, which is why GetHuman does not recommend this unless it's the only way.
Conclusion and closing notes
This is Lord Abbett's best phone number, the real-time current wait on hold and tools for skipping right through those phone lines to get right to a Lord Abbett agent. This phone number is Lord Abbett's best phone number because 43,344 customers like you used this contact information over the last 18 months and gave us feedback. Common problems addressed by the customer care unit that answers calls to 800-821-5129 include Get financial advice and other customer service issues. Rather than trying to call Lord Abbett first, consider describing your issue first; from that we may be able to recommend an optimal way to contact them via phone or web or email. In total, Lord Abbett has 2 phone numbers. It's not always clear what is the best way to talk to Lord Abbett representatives, so we started compiling this information built from suggestions from the customer community. Please keep sharing your experiences so we can continue to improve this free resource.
GetHuman does not provide call center services or customer support operations for Lord Abbett. The two organizations are not related. GetHuman builds free tools and shares information to help customers of companies like Lord Abbett. For large companies that includes tools such as our GetHuman Phone, which allows you to call a company but skip the part where you wait on the line to get a live human rep. We continue to work on these tools to help customers like you (and ourselves!) navigate the messy phone menus, hold times, and confusion with customer service. As long as you keep sharing it with your friends and loved ones, we'll keep doing it.