Pension insurance: apply for recognition of school days
Whether or not school time is taken into account in the pension insurance can be decisive for a few euros in pension more or less per month. It is therefore advisable to apply for recognition of those years.
Pension insurance and school time
Anyone who wants to achieve the best possible pension payments must also ensure that possible schooling is recognized.
- For many years, schooling generally had an increasing effect on pensions; since the last pension reform laws came into force, only Technical college training and pre-vocational training are assessed, that is, only attending these schools still affects pensions increasing from. However, a maximum of three years will be assessed. Attendance at other schools is credited for a maximum of eight years, i.e. he has no pensions increasing effect, but prevents the emergence of significant pension rights Contribution gaps.
- It is therefore important that you have the latest pension information from the German pension insurance or the next one you get, check carefully whether you are at school was credited.
- Have you attended a technical or master's school or participated in vocational training courses, you must also check whether the school attendance was also rated, that is, whether contributions are shown will. It may well be that this is not the case because the pension insurance company does not know the type of school you attended.
This is how you get the recognition
If your school years have not been credited or assessed, the recognition can still be made up for.
Pension insurance history - informative
If the desired pension is too low, there can be several reasons. …
- In order to get your school time recognized, please submit an application for account clarification. Such a application can be downloaded including explanations from the website of the German pension insurance. However, you can also get it from the LVAs or you can call a Service number request from the pension insurance. You can also request the application from the clerk who sent you the last pension information.
- Fill out the application carefully so that it is clear from the details you provided what type of school you attended.
- Have the relevant certificates or evidence of school attendance certified - this is done by the residents' registration offices, for example - and enclose them with the application.
If it is school time that can be credited or even assessed, the pension insurance the recognition before.
