Pension insurance account of late repatriates and displaced persons Clarification

You can request clarification of your pension account online without registration, online with registration or in writing.

Request clarification of your pension account online and without registration:

• Go to the Deutsche Rentenversicherung website and click on "Online services".
• Select "Online services without registration" in the drop-down menu and click on "Submit applications".
• On the initial page of the application wizard under "My request concerns..." select "the insurance account".
• On the next page, select "My insurance account has not yet been clarified (first-time account clarification)".
• You will be assisted electronically in completing the form and explanations and notes will be displayed.
• Depending on the answers you give, you will be referred to additional questions to be answered or forms to be filled in. If necessary, attach supporting documents according to the instructions.

Send these documents to your pension insurance institution. Document uploading and electronic transmission are currently not yet possible, so documents must be sent by post.

• At the end of the account clarification, you will receive an assessment notice from your pension insurance institution. It lists all the periods recorded for you.

Request clarification of your pension account online and with registration:

• Go to the Deutsche Rentenversicherung website and click on "Online services".
• Select "Online services with registration" in the drop-down menu. Now register either:
  • with your identity card (eID) or your residence permit (eAT) with activated online ID function or
  • of your electronic signature card.
• After you have registered, click on "Submit applications".
• On the initial page of the application wizard under "My request concerns..." select "the insurance account".
• On the next page, select "My insurance account has not yet been clarified (first-time account clarification)".
• You will be assisted electronically in filling in the application for account clarification and explanations and notes will be displayed to you
• Depending on the answers you give, you will be referred to additional questions to be answered or forms to be filled in. If necessary, attach supporting documents according to the instructions.
• Send these documents to your pension insurance institution. Document uploading and electronic transmission are currently not yet possible, so documents must be sent by post.
• At the end of the account clarification, you will receive an assessment notice from your pension insurance institution .It lists all the periods recorded for you.

Request clarification of your pension account in writing:

• In view of the complicated legal matter, you should submit the application for account clarification directly to one of the information and advice centres of the German Pension Insurance.
• Compile the required documents for the application and make an appointment.
• During the counselling interview, your application for account clarification is usually immediately recorded electronically and forwarded online.
• After your application has been examined, you will receive a separate assessment notice on the recognition of the insurance periods.

Note: The assessment notice establishes recognised periods according to the current legal situation. If the legislator changes the legal basis by the time the pension payment actually starts, this may mean that notices have to be adjusted to the new legal basis.
  

Your competent pension insurance institution

• Addresses and service numbers of the competent German pension insurance institutions

You belong to the group of displaced persons or are a late repatriate.

For the recognition of contribution and credit periods, all documents are helpful which show the type and duration of employment or its corresponding interruption. These are primarily the original insurance documents, for example:

• Workbooks,
• Insurance books,
• Legitimation books,
• Employer certificates and
• Testimonials.

• Additionally for the recognition of:

• Child-raising periods and child-reckoning periods: the birth certificates of the children,
• Pension reference period: the pension notice or a pension certificate,
• Periods of military service or alternative service: Military service certificate.

• Serves as proof of the status as a late repatriate:

• the Spätaussiedler certificate or
• the ID card for displaced persons.
• Note: On the basis of the documents submitted, the pension insurance institution decides in each individual case whether a contribution period has been made credible or even proven. For a proof, there must be no doubt about the correctness of the alleged fact. If the contribution periods have only been made credible, only five sixths of the values determined according to the previous explanations can be taken into account.

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Note: In order to avoid delays later on, for example when applying for a pension, you should submit a corresponding application already after you have received the Spätaussiedlerbescheinigung. This also makes it easier for you to obtain evidence

• § 149 Sixth Book of the Social Code (SGB VI)

• Application for clarification of your pension insurance account to download
• Online application of KAL (with registration)
• Online application of KAL (without registration)

• Information on pension matters in the brochure "Aussiedler und ihre Rente" (ethnic German immigrants and their pensions) on the website of the German Pension Insurance (Deutsche Rentenversicherung)
• Information on the Spätaussiedlerbescheinigung on the website of the Federal Office of Administration