PensionHunter data release, October 2026

Download the data

Each CSV row carries the source URL it was read from and the date it was read. The files are generated from our data, never written by hand.

• Treaty routes (CSV): one row per official list on which an agreement route between a researched country and a mapped country is recorded.
• Deadlines (CSV): one row per deadline register row for the researched countries, with its type and any fixed date.
• What changed (CSV): one row per dated change to our public data in October 2026.
• Per country (CSV): one row per researched country, with its routes, deadlines and their sources.
• Summary (JSON): every figure on this page, with the list of files.

How to cite

PensionHunter (2026), Data release, October 2026, data as of 14 October 2026, https://pensionhunter.ai/data/release/2026-10

We publish this release under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0), as we do our deadline register and scoreboard. You may republish or build on it with attribution to PensionHunter and the URL above. This month's release stays at that URL; the next month gets its own.

Treaty routes

In this release, an agreement route is a social security agreement between two countries, as an official agreement list records it. For each of the 98 countries we have mapped we read official agreement lists, and record which of the 41 countries we research each one has an agreement with. A row is marked multilateral only where the list we read is the list of a multilateral framework.

For Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa and Vietnam, our data records no agreement route with a mapped country. That is a gap in what we have read, not a finding that no agreement exists, and our data does not yet record agreements between two researched countries.

Deadlines

The Cross-Border Pension Deadline Register holds dated obligations in national pension systems that apply to a person who no longer lives in that country. Each row carries its official source and the date we checked it, between 1 September 2026 and 4 October 2026.

The next fixed dates in the register

• 31 December 2026, Slovenia, application window, row si-1
• 1 January 2027, Belgium, transition date, row be-13
• 31 March 2027, Singapore, arrears destroyed, row sg-8
• 31 March 2027, Singapore, transition date, row sg-16
• 5 April 2027, United Kingdom, transition date, row uk-6
• 6 April 2027, United Kingdom, other, row uk-16
• 1 January 2028, Netherlands, other, row nl-6
• 1 January 2029, Netherlands, transition date, row nl-10
• 31 December 2029, Switzerland, lost outright, row ch-3
• 5 April 2032, United Kingdom, voluntary contribution deadline, row uk-10

What changed in October 2026

Taken from our monthly data changes for October 2026, where every entry is listed with its date and a link to the row or page it describes.

Countries mapped

98

Countries added to our research

0

Country deadline pages added

36

Deadline rows added

0

Deadline rows changed

244

Deadline rows removed

1

Authority answers published

0

Employer pages added

500

Country by country

Agreement routes recorded with mapped countries, and deadline register rows, for each country we research. The per country CSV adds the source URLs and read dates for each row.

Methodology

• The release reads our data files as they stood on 14 October 2026, the last day of October 2026 our repository history covers, at commit 0cc2807. It reads the same tree as the monthly data changes for that month.
• Treaty routes come from the agreement lists we read for each mapped country: the national institution's own list where we could read it, and the European Commission's list for EU social security coordination. Each route names the list and the date we read it. Where a list could not be read we record nothing, so a missing route is a gap in our reading, never a finding that no agreement exists.
• A route is typed multilateral only where the list read is the list of a multilateral framework: EU social security coordination, the Ibero-American Multilateral Social Security Agreement, or the GCC extension of insurance protection. The United Kingdom's routes to EU countries on the European Commission's list are typed as the EU and UK protocol, because our mapped data records that link as the social security coordination protocol of the EU and UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement. Every other route is typed by the national list it was read on.
• Deadlines are the rows of our deadline register for the countries we research, each with its official source and the date we checked it. Counts by type use the register's own labels.
• What changed is the month's entries from our monthly data changes, dated by the day the change reached the main branch of our repository.
• We identify and research. Nothing in this release is advice or a statement about any person's entitlement.