Foreign workers often left in the dark over EU pension rights
People in the Netherlands who have worked in multiple EU countries have no way of knowing how much pension they’ve...
Foreign workers in the Netherlands often struggle to understand their EU pension rights, with NOS reporting that the country is not part of a European system to address the issue. Each EU member state must be contacted individually for pension information, as Lisa Bruggen, director of pension research institute Netspar, explains.
Combining pension amounts from different countries is complicated, as they are calculated differently. About 700,000 Dutch state pension recipients (AOW) receive a reduced amount due to living abroad. The Dutch pension law needs to change before the nation can join the EU-backed Find Your Pension platform, which aims to help pension savers locate and claim their savings.
Currently, the platform can only retrieve information from Belgium and France, leaving many Dutch users without assistance. The cabinet is actively working on the required law change, with an estimated 18,000 retired members of one pension fund having yet to claim their pension.
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