Pension question, Belgium
Do Belgian pensioners abroad need a life certificate?
A Belgian pensioner living in a country with no electronic data-exchange agreement is sent a life certificate and must complete and return it within 30 days of receiving it. If the Federal Pensions Service does not receive the completed life certificate back within 30 days, it stops paying the pension.
What to do next
- Find the local authority in your country that can stamp the certificate.
- Keep a note of the date each certificate arrives, so the thirty days are not lost.
- Run our free check to see whether another country also holds a pension for you.
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Who may stamp the certificate?
A certificate unsigned, missing your details on the back, or missing a competent local authority's stamp is refused and payment suspended, and a bank, post office, doctor, lawyer or pharmacist may not stamp it.
- Source: sfpd.fgov.be, read 3 October 2026
Do you give advice on what to do?
No. We identify where a pension is likely held and the official route to it, and we name each source with the date we read it. We do not give financial, tax or legal advice.