Apply for a clarification of the pension insurance record of ethnic German repatriates*

Late repatriates and displaced persons are treated as if they had spent their entire insurance history in Germany. Recognition as a repatriate or late repatriate is granted in accordance with the Federal Displaced Persons Act. As these people generally have no pension-insured earnings in Germany prior to their arrival, their periods of residence can be credited under the so-called Foreign Pensions Act (FRG). The value of these periods corresponds to the average earnings of comparable insured persons in Germany.

If you meet the relevant requirements, your contribution periods and periods of employment will be taken into account. Your qualifying periods spent in your country of origin – for example, due to incapacity for work, school or university attendance, or illness – will also be taken into account.

For contribution periods from 1950 onwards, table values are assigned according to qualification groups – for example, with or without vocational training, with a master craftsman’s qualification, with a university degree – and economic sectors, such as the construction industry, trade and transport, in order to arrive at an income assessment that is as realistic as possible. The values are then generally reduced to 60 per cent of the full value. This is intended, in particular, to provide an adjustment for insured persons who have lived in structurally disadvantaged areas of Germany and earned significantly less than the average.