2024-07-17 09:30:10
This letter can increase the pension of the retirees.
This is the kind of good news that we would love to receive every day. Imagine: one morning, you go to retrieve your mail from your mailbox. In the middle of newspapers and leaflets, a letter with the stamp “Info Retraite”. Yet another ad we’re ignoring? Maybe not. You may have posted information that made you earn a little money a month, after something you forgot. 50,000 people had this pleasant surprise last year.
Building your retirement file is a tedious process. Going back more than 40 years of payroll is no easy task. At a time when the digitization of documents is far from being the norm, rewriting one’s entire life is almost a feat. Therefore, undoubtedly, there may be mistakes or errors. Damage to your wallet.
In France, if you don’t apply for a pension, it will never be paid to you. Therefore, if you have forgotten that at the age of 20, you contributed to a specific pension, the latter will never give you your right. But things have changed.
For 20 years now, the “Pension Team” program has been responsible for informing the French of their pension rights. Every five years, it sends, to anyone between 35 and 65, a bulletin that allows them to be updated on their pension rights, to know the funds that will have to pay them a pension and also, from age 55, get an estimate of how much you can get. Thanks to this document, it is therefore possible to know if there has been an oversight.
60 million customers related for example the story of Maryse who has forgotten since 2004 to ask 300 euros per year from Agric-Arrco. It was this letter, which he received one morning, which made him aware of this and encouraged him to take the necessary steps.
Other pensioners should also benefit from this document. “People who retired a long time ago did not benefit from the unique information available today. […] We noticed that, on a given generation, a number of retirees have unclaimed rights from the fund that they have forgotten,” Thomas Tracou, communications director of Union Retraite also explained. 60 million customers.
In this year 2024, it is the retirees born in 1949, 1950 and 1954 who can receive this letter that carries good news. However, don’t expect to get cents and miles back: there is no refund. Unclaimed pensions for the year will not be paid as catch-up.
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