It is therefore important that you fill in the life certificate form completely and always remember to sign it. If you do not present the certificate in time, your pension payments may be suspended. Once every year you are requested by your German pension authority to submit a life certificate. The German missions in Australia are not able to provide additional or technical advice on this service.įor additional questions, please contact the Deutsche Post Rentenservice directly. You’ll find detailed information on the digital proof of life via the PostIDENT App on the website of the Deutsche Post Rentenservice. Life certificates for recipients of German old age pensions They will determine your competent Institution. Regionaldirektion Nord – Standort HamburgĮ-Mail: you paid your last German contribution to Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (German federal pension insurance fund, the former Bundesversicherungsanstalt) please contact:Į-Mail: you have not paid any German contributions yet, please contact Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund. If you have ever paid a contribution to Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See (the former federal Miners insurance, railway insurance institutions, and social security authority for seamen) your contact is:ĭeutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See Geschäftsstelle Bremen – Sachbereich 3.480Į-Mail: German-Australian Liaison office If you paid your last German contribution to a regional office of Deutsche Rentenversicherung (the former Landesversicherungsanstalten) your competent institution isĭeutsche Rentenversicherung Oldenburg-Bremen Your competent insurance institution is basically the institution where you paid your German contributions to. The Australian German Welfare Society in Sydney also offers a service with costs to assist in applying for (or lodging) a German pension Specific questions with respect to your pension or the amount of your pension can only be answered by the experts of the German pension authority. The German Foreign Missions can only provide general information and are not a branch of the German pension authority abroad. If you want to enquire about the current status of your application, please contact the pension authority. Which will forward them to the competent German pension authority.Īpplication processing takes at least up to six months. The completed forms can be submitted directly to the competent German pension authority , to any Centrelink office or You can download application forms from the website of the German Pension Authority. You will find information on the details of the Social Security Agreements between Germany and Australia, their effects on German law and the rights and entitlements you have in Australia in the following brochure: Germany and Australia have concluded two agreements to absorb possible disadvantages for people who have lived and worked in Australia and Germany. contributions for a minimal insurance period, age limit). Pensions from the German Social Security Insurance are only paid upon application and when all conditions are fulfilled (e.g. Applying for old age pension / surviving dependants' pension
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