Cross-border old-age, survivors' and invalidity pensions : report on P1 portable documents : reference year 2015

Persons are entitled to a partial pension from every Member State where they were insured for at least one year, provided that the conditions under national law are fulfilled. These pensions correspond to the insurance periods completed in each of the Member States concerned. The claimant should apply for a pension in the Member State of residence or the Member State in which s/he was last insured. This is called the 'contact Member State'. The contact Member State sends the claim and the accompanying documents to the other Member States in which the claimant was insured (these are the exporting Member States). However, for the purpose of this report, the exporting Member State could also be the Member State of residence, provided that the contact Member State is the one of last insurance. Once the contact Member State has received all decisions, it sends the claimant a summary of those decisions through the Portable Document (PD) P1. This document provides an overview of the decisions taken by the various Member States from which one has claimed an old-age, survivors' or invalidity pension. For the compilation of this report, data for reference year 2015 has been collected on the number of claims for an old-age, survivors' or invalidity pension from two or more Member States as well as on the number and the amount of pensions paid to pensioners who receive a pension from two or more Member States.