Reclaiming your pension funds on leaving Germany

Hey,

To reclaim one's pension upon leaving Germany , one must fill out 3 application forms; the V900- must be filled while still here in Germany and then two others at the time of reclaiming ( 2 years from the date of departure). I have ordered these application forms from the Deutsche Rentenversicherung and they were sent to me. A week later a whole new bunch of application forms were also sent; V100, V800, V805, V410. Unfortunately, My German is not helping me here, I cannot understand a thing!

Does anyone know what these application forms are for?

Thanks, E.

No, and I guess not many people will know, either
However: I recently got a new entry into my service net-work for Expats, a tax advisor who is specialized in re-claiming these pension contributions (yours, not the employer's) for Expats. Since you need to stay in contact with the German authorities over considerable time after you left country, it might be well worth to employ someone in your stead. Sure, some money will then not go into your pockets because he'll charge some fees, but I am quite sure it will be worth it - because he also checks that you really get entirely what is your's in the end...

If you want to get in contact with him, let me know by email (no PM, please) and I'll give you his contact information. Just click the link below to contact me.

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I will leave Germany soon after living for 9 months. Is it worth to get my pension funds back?

that dpeends on where you are moving to and what nationality you are. Many countries (including, of course, all EU member states) do have reciprocal agreements with Germany with regards to pension claims and thus you would not get your money back anyway. So, as a first step you'll have to find out if you are eligible at all or not.
Then look at your 9 payslips and see, how much money has been dedcuted from your net pay for the pension contributions - because you'll only get this share back, not the share paid by the employer. Thus you can see if the total amount is worth the hussle for you or not...

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I went to Deutsche Rentenversicherung for reclaiming my pension fund. They gave me only V900, asked me to fill it, and send it back around 2 year later. In addition, they also told me that I have to send them a copy of evident that I have left Germany. Where can I get such an evident? Is it ok to submit V900 form only?

Thank

Upa

One more thing. I am living in Braunschweig, and will leave in a month for a total of 9 months working. Every month, I paid a large amount of taxes and pension fund. It is quite clear to me that I can get back my pension fund. What about the tax I paid? I have never filing any tax return so far? Is there any way I can reclaim the tax I a paid, perhaps partially? if yes, then how? Where can I file the tax return? Some people said I can do so online.

Thx

Upa

You cannot get back any tax you paid (unless it is any income tax that you would ordinarily be refunded because you overpaid via withholding while you were working- and you will have to file an income tax return in order to do that) just your share (the employee share) of the old age pension contribution. If you think about it, it makes sense that you would not get taxes back since you used public services like roads while you lived here.

When you do your Abmeldung, I would think you would get something showing when you left; also, save all of your payslips and your Zeugnis.