{"id":3585,"date":"2019-01-08T08:40:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T07:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/?p=3585"},"modified":"2023-08-04T10:29:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T09:29:47","slug":"pension-rights-transfer-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/en\/pension-rights-transfer-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Pension rights: transfer or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_auto\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"g-cols wpb_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-2 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p><strong>Pension rights transfer \u2018gone down the drain\u2019 paid back after retirement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Four members of the contract staff of the Court of Justice transferred their national\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/en\/transferring-pension-rights-explained\/\">pension<\/a>\u00a0rights to the EU pension scheme. The administration had not given them any hint of a\u00a0<strong>\u2018minimum subsistence figure<\/strong>\u2018, which applied in their case.<\/p>\n<p>Only afterwards, they discovered that, with or without a transfer, the pension they could expect to receive would be the same.<\/p>\n<p>After a legal dispute which lasted 7 years, the General Court suggested to them the possibility of claiming their money back. To keep it short:<\/p>\n<p>Once the damage you claim to have sustained has become \u2018<em>real and certain<\/em>\u2019,\u00a0<em>i.e<\/em>. once your pension has been calculated and you find out that the transferred capital did not have a positive impact on the amount of your pension, you can ask for the return of this capital, on grounds of\u00a0<strong>unjust enrichment<\/strong>\u00a0on the part of the Union.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This case law sets a precedent for all those who find themselves in a similar situation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Within a period of 10 years and 6 months since entering the service of the EU, the staff member may request the transfer of pension rights which he \/ she has acquired under a national pension scheme. The transfer, once made, becomes irreversible.<\/p>\n<p>This is why, before signing an application to transfer your national pension entitlements, think twice and seek advice from your union as to whether, given the effect of the minimum subsistence figure rule, this transfer is likely to produce more favourable results than keeping your national pension.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>You can find the Pension rights transfer file\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/min_subs_USF_EN_extenso.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_large\"><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_medium with_line width_50 thick_3 style_solid color_primary align_center\"><div class=\"w-separator-h\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-2 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pension rights transfer \u2018gone down the drain\u2019 paid back after retirement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,69],"tags":[],"dossier-special":[],"class_list":["post-3585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pension-special-report","category-special-report"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pension rights: transfer or not? 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