Pension, how to apply for the redemption of 'contribution holes': up to 5 years of unpaid contributions can be recovered

Missing contributions can be redeemed, in whole or in part, for a maximum of five years (even if not continuous) for the periods between January 1, 1996 and January 1, 2024

The program "TV Pagalba" investigated how it could have happened that Nijole, a Lithuanian living in England, had not been paid her honestly earned pension by her native Lithuania for even five years. The woman has been earning her living as an emigrant for eighteen years, but before that she had worked in Lithuania all her life and paid taxes to the state. Read the first part of the story about the difficult situation of a Lithuanian pensioner…

Who cares for relatives can collect pension points. Find out when pension rights arise and how high the contributions can be.

The Hungarian pension system also has eight special features that could have a chance to apply for the title hungariicum in the subject of the most unique Hungarian solutions. The net Hungarian pension calculation, the preferential total pension for women - which in fact led to the establishment of a double Hungarian retirement age -, the abolition of the age allowance and the abolition of the invalidity pension, the financial perversion of the …

The French who have contributed their entire life to their retirement often find themselves with much lower pensions than expected. This finding, which is increasingly common, can be particularly frustrating for those who expected pay more immediately after years of work. But why, despite years of contributions, can retirement remain so modest? One of the major reasons why your retirement pension may be lower than your expectations lies in the m…

Following the end of the pre-retirement moratorium on 23 March 2025, the National Social Security Administration (ANSES) established new conditions for access to retirement. From now on, only persons who meet two fundamental requirements will be able to start the retirement process: having reached the minimum age (60 years for women and 65 years for men) and having at least 30 years of contributions to the Argentine pension system. However, thos…