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Research

Everything we publish is free.

The work we do for one person is not.

How a pension system works, who runs it, whether it can be reached from abroad and what it publishes about the people it cannot find is general knowledge, and general knowledge belongs to everyone. Research into one named person, in named countries, is work that somebody pays for. That is the whole of the distinction.

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  • The portal directory

    The government pension portals of 52 systems, with the route into each one.

  • The pension scoreboard

    What each of 47 national systems publishes about the money it holds for members it cannot reach, and what it does not.

  • The reachability study

    The same six questions, put in writing across 53 systems. Every reply is published as it was given to us.

  • The non-resident gap

    Who is left outside the pension tracking layer Europe is building for the people who live inside it.

  • Migrant worker pensions

    What happens to a pension along the world's migration corridors when the worker goes home.

  • The language pages

    The same research written for worker communities in their own languages, and guides to a single country's pension system for people who do not read English easily. Every one is listed in the footer of this page.

This dataset is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). You may republish or build on it, including commercially, with attribution to PensionHunter, pensionhunter.ai/scoreboard.

What we charge for

We charge for research about one named person: which countries hold something in that person's name, who exactly holds it, and the exact route to each holder. The free check comes first and costs nothing, and it tells you whether there is anything worth looking for.

The fees are set out on the pricing page.

What we will not do

  • We do not give financial advice.
  • We take no percentage and no commission, and we never touch anyone's money.
  • We do not publish the name of any individual official.
  • We publish corrections in full, with the source and the date, beside the original.
  • We publish what institutions tell us whether or not it helps us.

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