Pensioner, prove that you’re alive. Statement of Social Security elektronizuje … – GazetaPrawna.pl

Every year, the Social Insurance Institution sends abroad more than 42 thousand. pensions. Once a year, retirees must in turn give a delivery time undertaking official confirmation of residence somewhat dramatically called “acknowledgment of life.” It ensures ZUS that pensioner lives. If the letter is not, payment is withheld. This is to avoid the payment of benefits on account of the dead. Now ZUS such credentials will be gained by foreign insurance companies. Pensioners avoid cumbersome procedures, which consisted of having to prove the veracity of their signature on the certificate of life in the local office.

Social Security retirees will send a request to provide their identification number in the country where they live. Then get in touch with local insurance companies and now through them electronically will receive information about your client. These solutions are made possible by the exchange of information on the basis of a decision of the European Commission H5, concerning cooperation in the fight against fraud and error, and the coordination of social security systems and bilateral agreements.

Thanks to contacts with their counterparts in other countries ZUS quickly learns of the death of the client and withhold payment of pensions. Today, it often makes a few months later, then it is difficult to recover the money. The system will operate in both directions, as well as social security institutions will provide information about their foreign clients living in Poland. A method of verifying the foreign customers of insurance companies are often much more onerous than those zusowskie: eg. Monthly or verification is confirmed by a notary.

The new solution is implemented in Germany – with 15 thousand. people living there and receiving Social Security retirement from December gets information electronically about 6 thousand. people. This allowed withhold payment of approx. 240 thousand. zł. The exchange of information is started with Australia and Croatia, and is working on pilot implementations with Sweden, Spain, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

So far, neither the number of foreign retirees, or the sum of unduly paid benefits were not large (just over 300 thousand. zł.). But the problem size increases. Social Security has estimated that, by the end of the decade the number of Polish pensioners in Germany – there are now 15 thousand. – Triple. A similar phenomenon we have to deal in other countries where the Poles go for bread. After 2020. The process has become even worse. There are two reasons – some emigrants will reach retirement age and ask Social Security benefits. And those in the prime of life to invite him his elderly parents, for what you have to sit at home alone.