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Find your pension after working in France and Netherlands

Pensions accrued in France and Netherlands are administered separately by each country's providers and registers. We do the identification work in both jurisdictions, the route is different in each, and we use the verified route per country.

Find my pensions

Full refund if we find nothing material.

Your France pension, what we can identify

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.

Time-critical dates

  • Active-claim 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 unclaimed 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: Unclaimed 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
  • No automatic payment, no retroactivity: French pensions, base and Agirc-Arrco, are not paid automatically, and a late application is not retroactive.Official source, checked 21 August 2026
  • Annual life certificate from abroad: Pensioners living abroad confirm their situation each year with a life certificate. A single certificate covers all French schemes, and a biometric application is one of the accepted routes.Official source, checked 21 August 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 claims file via the residence-country institution

From abroad: La Poste Identité Numérique can be created remotely (62 countries) and unlocks FranceConnect → info-retraite.fr, BUT it is NIR-gated, so the holder must already know their NIR (RNIPP). The no-NIR case is the harder path and remains UNKNOWN.

Cross-border

EU aggregation + single-claim 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

Your Netherlands pension, what we can identify

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

Your Dutch pension is being moved into the new system (Wtp / invaren) by 1 January 2028, funds must inform members but often cannot reach those who moved abroad.

If you do nothing

The accrued pension is converted ("invaren") into the new system whether or not the member is reached; no escheat and payment claims never prescribe while alive, but months beyond the backdating window are lost on eventual claim.

Time-critical dates

  • Update your address before your fund converts: Dutch funds are converting all pensions to the new system by 1 January 2028, deferred members included, with no individual objection right, and they write to last known addresses. Update your address with every old fund before yours converts.
  • Wtp transition final date: 1 January 2028 (extended from 2027 by the Eerste Kamer on 2 December 2025). ~half of members converted by mid-2026; ABP 1 Jan 2027Official source, checked 21 August 2026

How records are reached

Personal-record access wall: DigiD (or EU eIDAS) for mijnpensioenoverzicht.nl (AOW + all second-pillar)

mijnpensioenoverzicht.nl consolidates AOW + every second-pillar pension in one place behind DigiD, and the DNB register is publicly searchable. What makes the Netherlands distinctive is that Dutch workplace pensions are not employer-by-employer in the way they look, they are industry-sector by mandate, which means identification has more signal than most countries offer, but the third pillar (lijfrente) sits entirely outside the register and is the most-missed layer.

From abroad: DigiD is obtainable from abroad (videocall/balie with a BSN), EU eIDAS keys work, and AOW is claimable from abroad through your residence-country institution without DigiD. Two real gaps remain: a lapsed DigiD plus a closed Dutch bank account is a slow re-onboarding problem, and heirs have no access route at all because DigiD locks on death, a citable gap, not a workaround.

Cross-border

EU coordination; NZ↔NL voluntary-AOW carve-out from the s.70 deduction (rare).

Primary sources: DNB public register · mijnpensioenoverzicht.nl · rijksoverheid.nl / SVB

Cross-border, factual

France and Netherlands pensions are not pooled or auto-consolidated. Each leg is worked on its own: registers searched in France, registers searched in Netherlands, and contact details surfaced where the dossier supports it. State pensions may be affected by bilateral or reciprocal agreements between the two jurisdictions, each country page records what its dossier establishes; we do not invent treaty effects.

Frequently asked questions

Can PensionHunter trace a pension from France when I now live in Netherlands?

Yes. Our report covers identification work in both France and Netherlands as separate jurisdictions. Each country's pensions are administered locally; we work each one using the access route published on its country page.

Do my France and Netherlands pensions combine automatically?

No. Pensions accrued in France stay with France schemes; pensions accrued in Netherlands stay with Netherlands schemes. They are administered separately. Bilateral and reciprocal agreements may affect state pension aggregation in some pairs, see each country page for what its dossier records.

What does the Pension Identification Report deliver for a France→Netherlands working history?

An identification-only report covering both jurisdictions: registers searched, any provider matches with contact details, and any registers that require you to check directly using your own credentials. We do not give financial advice, transfer pensions, or estimate values.

What if you find nothing?

Full refund if we find nothing material. Fixed fee, $99 Country Pension Identification Report, $499 Enhanced Pension Identification Report, $799 Global (covers all requested countries).