You live in Switzerland, you are entitled to an OASI benefit, a disabled person benefit or a supplementary pension and you would like to move abroad.
Are you still entitled to your benefit?
You live in Switzerland, you are entitled to an OASI benefit, a disabled person benefit or a supplementary pension and you would like to move abroad.
Are you still entitled to your benefit?
You are citizen of a country with which Switzerland has not concluded a social security agreement:
You may be entitled to the refund of your contributions but the pensions which have already been received deducted from the total amount of the refundable total. For other question regarding the refund of contributions, please contact the Swiss Compensation Office in Geneva.
Except for the survivor pension's holders: you are citizens of a country with which Switzerland has not concluded a social security agreement but the deceased person was Swiss or from a country with which Switzerland has concluded a social security agreement, you are entitled to the payment of your benefit abroad.
You are Swiss citizen, from an EU, EFTA state or from a country with which Switzerland has concluded a social security agreement:
You should announce your departure to the cantonal or professional compensation office in Switzerland which pays your benefit. This office will transfer your file to the Swiss Compensation Office in Geneva which will take over the payment of your pension. The old-age and survivor pension's holder chooses the payments' address (in Switzerland or abroad) freely. The OASI benefits in favour of the pension's holders living abroad are in general paid in the local currency (country of the payments' address).
Exception:
You receive benefits for disabled person (allocations pour impotent) or supplementary benefits for auxiliary means (wheelchair, hearing aid, etc):
You lose you right to these benefits when you live abroad. Only the persons who have their usual domicile and residence in Switzerland are entitled to this kind of benefits.
You receive an old-age pension and stay in Switzerland but your spouse and/or your child receive a supplementary pension from the OASI and they leave Switzerland:
You must inform their departure to the cantonal or professional compensation office which pays the benefits. This office will transfer your file on to the Swiss Compensation Office in Geneva which will take over the payment of all pensions including yours even if you stay in Switzerland. The OASI pension‘s beneficiary chooses the payments' address (in Switzerland or abroad) freely. The OASI benefits in favour of the pension holders living abroad are in general paid in the local currency (country of the payments' address).
You lose you right to these benefit when you live abroad. Only the persons who have their usual domicile and residence in Switzerland are entitled to this kind of benefit.
Last modification 29.01.2019