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• Request pension information online and without registration
• Request pension information online and with registration

The pension information gives you an overview of your accrued entitlements and the amount of old-age pension you can expect. The pension information includes, among other things:

• a description of your contributions paid so far,
• an indication of the amount of pension rights you have acquired, both for an old-age pension and for a full disability pension, and
• an extrapolation of your old-age pension entitlements at the time of reaching the standard old-age pension.

The extrapolation is based on a premium payment as the average of the last five calendar years. This makes pension information an important basis for planning your additional private and company pension scheme.

Together with your first pension information, you will also receive an insurance history. This shows you the periods and earnings stored in your pension insurance account.

Note: Pension information is also sent abroad. However, the automatic dispatch ends if you are resident abroad if you have not paid any contributions to the German pension insurance for more than three years.
 

• You are or were insured with the German Pension Insurance.
• You are at least 27 years old.
• You have paid contributions to the statutory pension insurance scheme for at least five years.
• You do not yet receive a pension from your own insurance.

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You will automatically receive your pension information annually by post as soon as you have fulfilled the requirements. You do not have to apply. However, you can also request pension information informally at any time.

If you would like to receive your pension information by post, you can request it online without further registration:

• Go to the website of the German Pension Insurance and click on "Online Services". Select "Online services without registration" from the drop-down menu and click on "Request insurance documents"
• In the "Request from..." field, select "Pension Information" and enter the rest of the data.
• Click Submit.
• You will receive your pension information by post.

If you would like to receive your pension information directly online, you must first register online:

• Go to the website of the German Pension Insurance and click on "Online Services".
• Select "Online services with registration" from the drop-down menu. Now register either:
  • with your identity card (eID) or your residence permit (eAT) with activated online ID function or
  • your electronic signature card.
• Your pension information will then be displayed on your screen. However, if your pension information is currently being processed or contains implausible data, there will be no on-screen display. You will be informed.

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Your competent pension insurance institution.

• Addresses and service numbers of the competent institutions of the German Pension Insurance

You can find the pension insurance institution responsible for you via the information and advice centre finder of the German Pension Insurance.

Phone: 0800 1000-4800 (Toll-Free)
Service hours:
Monday to Thursday: 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Friday: 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

• Information and advice centre finder of the German Pension Insurance
• Information on the service telephone for deaf and hearing-impaired people on the website of the German Pension Insurance

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

The amounts stated in the pension information are gross values. Health and long-term care insurance contributions and, if applicable, taxes must still be paid from the aforementioned pension amount.

In addition, the pension information contains an explicit indication that the calculation of your projected pension is made without taking into account the loss of purchasing power. On the back of your pension information you will find a concrete calculation example of the loss of purchasing power.
 

• Questions and answers on pension information on the website of the German Pension Insurance

Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS)