Cross-border old-age, survivors' and invalidity pensions : report on portable documents P1 : reference year 2022

This report provides an overview of the payment of old-age, survivors', and invalidity pensions in a cross-border context within the EU/EFTA (including the UK), seeing that there is a considerable group of pensioners who have worked in several of these countries or have decided to move abroad. Some 6.1 million pensions were paid to persons residing in another EU/EFTA country or the UK, amounting to a total expenditure of some € 24.5 billion. Switzerland (€ 6.4 billion), Germany (€ 5.7 billion) and France (€ 3.4 billion) are the countries that have paid by far the most pensions to people residing in another EU/EFTA country or the UK. Most EU/EFTA/UK pensions are exported to pensioners residing in France, Spain and Italy. On average 3.9 % of the total number of EU/EFTA/UK pensioners reside in another EU/EFTA country or the UK. However, total spending for this group of pensioners amounts to only 1.3% of the total amount of paid pensions. Finally, the reported figures for France show an increase from 2020 onwards, mainly due to corrected reporting.