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Find your lost pension in France: base and complementary schemes

France splits your pension between a base scheme and a separate mandatory complementary scheme, and the online record only opens with a French digital identity keyed to your social security number. We identify what is in your name and hand you the route in. $99, full refund if we find nothing material.

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  • No percentage, no commission
  • Refund if nothing material

If you worked in France and moved on, changed employers, or lost the paperwork years ago, you are in the right place. Pensions are rarely gone. Most of the time the scheme simply lost track of you.

What your Pension Identification Report delivers

Nobody sits between you and your pension. You act the moment the evidence lands.

Named fund or administrator for France, with the sourced route to contact them

For France, a Pension Identification Report identifies the named fund or administrator holding your pension, with the sourced route to contact them. Identification only. In the Enhanced Pension Identification Report and the Global Pension Identification Report we prepare a complete information request for every fund we identify, ready to send.

Identification & research only, no financial advice

Doing it yourself in France, the honest position

The official pension account opens only through a French digital identity keyed to your French social security number. If you do not know that number, you are locked out, and our dossier says so plainly rather than pretending otherwise.

Identification only. We do not open credential-protected accounts, and we do not transfer, negotiate, or make decisions regarding any pension.

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Country Pension Identification Report, France

Within 24 to 48 hours

Find my pensions in France

Full refund if we find nothing material.

Country Pension Identification Report, $99: We identify who holds each pension from each country of your working life that you tick, with the source and the contact route for every holder. If an administrator asks, refuses or does not reply, send it to us and we tell you what to send next.

Enhanced Pension Identification Report, $499: Everything in the Country Report, plus a complete information request for every fund identified, written and ready for you to send. Support after delivery for as long as your case is open.

Global Pension Identification Report, $799: Everything in the Enhanced Report, for every country you worked in, in one document.

Your France report, see the full sampleFRANCE SAMPLEThis is the France sample, produced by the same methodology that runs every real case.Open the sample

PensionHunter is a team of pension researchers working across 41 countries. We do not touch your money, we take no percentage, and every report is reviewed by a human before release.

Verified country facts

Every line below is drawn from the verified country dossier. We never fabricate facts; candidate items are gated out of customer-facing copy.

Why it matters

The mandatory Agirc-Arrco complementary pension is a SEPARATE entitlement from the CNAV base pension (two bodies, two streams), and French pensions are never paid automatically; they must be filed ~5 months ahead.

If you do nothing

Nothing is paid without an application; filing late loses un-backdated months. No refund for leavers, rights are preserved and exportable, paid pro-rata at retirement.

Deadlines that matter in France

  • Active-application window: File ~5 months before the desired start (9 for early long-career; ≥6 for cross-border)
  • CFE voluntary window: 6 months from the end of mandatory insurance
  • Ciclade dormancy: Dormant SUPPLEMENTARY products → State after 30 years (base/Agirc-Arrco excluded)
  • Ciclade free official search: The free official Ciclade service searches dormant money transferred to the Caisse des Depots. It is open to any nationality and covers employee retirement plans (PEE, PER, PERCO).Official source, checked 21 August 2026
  • Thirty-year transfer to the State: Dormant money follows a legal clock ending 30 years after last activity, after which it is definitively transferred to the French State.Official source, checked 21 August 2026
  • Annual life certificate from abroad: Pensioners living abroad send a life certificate every year, completed by the competent local authority of the country of residence, and returned within two months or payment is suspended.Official source, checked 16 September 2026

How records are reached

Personal-record access wall: info-retraite.fr / Mon compte retraite, FranceConnect + a NIR (RNIPP); no-NIR expats locked out

The relevé de carrière is on info-retraite.fr; cross-border applications file via the residence-country institution

From abroad: info-retraite.fr opens only through FranceConnect, which is NIR-gated (RNIPP), so a leaver who does not know their NIR is locked out.

Cross-border

EU aggregation + single-application cascade (file in residence country → cascades to France); the expat must still list France.

Primary sources: lassuranceretraite.fr · agirc-arrco.fr · cleiss.fr · info-retraite.fr · ciclade.caissedesdepots.fr

Worked in more than one country? One Global Pension Identification Report covers every country you worked in, up to all 41 we cover.

See all countries

Whether anyone officially counts pensions nobody has applied for in France is a question with a published answer, and we keep it on one page: the France row on our pension scoreboard.

For pension schemes and trustees with members in France, see our cross-border member tracing services

Questions people ask before they start

How are pension records in France reached?

The relevé de carrière is on info-retraite.fr; cross-border applications file via the residence-country institution

Can I find a pension in France from abroad?

info-retraite.fr opens only through FranceConnect, which is NIR-gated (RNIPP), so a leaver who does not know their NIR is locked out.

What happens to a pension in France if I do nothing?

Nothing is paid without an application; filing late loses un-backdated months. No refund for leavers, rights are preserved and exportable, paid pro-rata at retirement.

How do pensions in France interact with other countries?

EU aggregation + single-application cascade (file in residence country → cascades to France); the expat must still list France.

What if you find nothing?

Full refund. Our report is a fixed $99 fee; if it delivers nothing material, you pay nothing.

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Some clients order a Pension Identification Report for themselves. Many order it to get their affairs in order: one document their family can find, whatever happens.

We identify what is in your name in France and hand you the route in. $99, full refund if we find nothing material.

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Important Information

PensionHunter is a research and administrative assistance service only. We search pension registries and employer records to identify whether pension entitlements may exist in your name, we do not provide financial advice, manage pension funds, arrange pension transfers, or help anyone apply for or access pension funds.

PensionHunter is not regulated by the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR) or any equivalent financial-services or pensions regulator in France. Our service is limited to research and information provision. We charge a fixed research fee paid in advance. Full refund if we find nothing material.

All decisions about your pension, including whether to contact providers, transfer funds, or take any other action, remain entirely yours. We strongly recommend consulting a qualified independent financial adviser regulated in your jurisdiction before making any decisions about any pension we locate.