Pension question, Luxembourg
Do Luxembourg pensioners abroad need a certificate of life?
CNAP posts a life certificate to pension beneficiaries during their month of birth, and the beneficiary must return it before the deadline printed on the form. Once in payment, certificates of life go out in the beneficiary's birth month, and CNAP states that payment of the pension will be stopped if the form is not returned by the deadline, is a copy, or is incomplete.
- Source: cnap.public.lu, read 1 September 2026
- Source: cnap.public.lu, guichet.public.lu, secu.lu, read 4 October 2026
What to do next
- Keep your birth month in mind as the month the certificate arrives.
- Find the local authority in your country that can countersign it.
- Run our free check to see whether another country also holds a pension for you.
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An appeal to the Social Security Arbitration Council (Conseil arbitral de la sécurité sociale) must be filed within forty days of notification of the contested decision.
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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.