The state pensions will be adjusted as of July 1, 2023.

Pensions will increase by 4.39% this year in the former West German states.
Pensions will increase by 5.86% in the former East German states. 

The corresponding adjustment notification will be sent out from mid-June 2023 onward.

Everything you need to know about your pension adjustment notification can be found in our FAQs.

If you are entitled to German pension payments from a statutory pension or accident insurance provider and have supplementary pension benefits (Zusatzversorgung), you are asked once a year, under certain conditions, to present proof of life. 

Requirements for your 2023 proof of life:

• Deutsche Post AG, NL Renten Service, 04078 Leipzig must receive your 2023 life certificate no later than October 13, 2023.
• Renten Service must receive your original 2023 life certificate by mail.
• PLEASE NOTE: Submissions by e-mail and fax will not be accepted!
• Your life certificate must be filled out completely, certified by an official body and personally signed by the pension recipient.

NOTE: If no life certificate form was enclosed with the pension adjustment notification you received, you do not need to take any further action this year.

You can find detailed information and a copy of the form in your language at rentenservice.de/LB or here

You will receive a pension receipt notification (“Information on the notification to the tax authorities”) for every taxable pension benefit – pension amount and contributions to health and long-term care insurance – within a calendar year. The organizations making the payments issue the notification once a year by the end of February for the previous calendar year.

Pension receipt notification for state pensions
Deutsche Rentenversicherung (DRV) will send pension receipt notifications for state pension benefits to its pension recipients. You will automatically receive this notification if you have already applied for it once.

If you would like to apply for a pension receipt notification for the first time, you can do so simply and conveniently via the online service of Deutsche Rentenversicherung. Please click here.

You will find more information and contact options for the pension receipt notification for state pension benefits in our FAQs regarding the state pension.

Note: The Pension Service cannot issue you with pension receipt notifications for state pension benefits.

Pension receipt notification for company pensions
You will automatically receive a pension receipt notification by the end of February for the previous calendar year for company pension benefits paid by the Pension Service of Deutsche Post on behalf of your previous employer.

The Pension Service of Deutsche Post creates this notification and sends it to you by mail. You will find more information and contact options for the pension receipt notification for company pension benefits in our FAQs for company pensioners and allowance beneficiaries.

Note regarding basic pension supplement – dispatch of the first official communication and income assessment

Until the end of 2022, Deutsche Rentenversicherung (German Pension Insurance) checked all pensions for entitlement to a basic pension and dispatched a first official communication to all those entitled. Some 1.1 million pensioners benefit from the basic pension and on average receive EUR 86 more each month. The corresponding press release of the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales) can be found here.

If you have any questions regarding your eligibility or how your basic pension supplement is calculated, please contact exclusively the responsible insurance provider. The contact details for your insurance provider at Deutsche Rentenversicherung can be found here.

Please note: The Deutsche Post Pension Service cannot give you any information on this matter.

In accordance with statutory provisions, an income assessment of all eligible persons was conducted in recent weeks in connection with the payment of the basic pension supplement beginning in 2023. If, as a result of this assessment, you received a new notification in November or December 2022, it informed you if your basic pension supplement has changed or lapsed. The income assessment is conducted on an annual basis

Further information on the basic pension supplement is available here.

1)      The premiums for statutory long-term care insurance will increase on July 1, 2023.
The adjusted premiums may have an influence on your pension payment amounts.

Long-term care insurance – with children
The contribution to long-term care insurance with children amounts to 3.4% of your pension.
The contribution will be paid by the pension insurance provider to the long-term care insurance provider.

Long-term care insurance – without children
The contribution to long-term care insurance without children amounts to 4% of your pension.
If you have (or had) children, the contribution to long-term care insurance is reduced. The decisive factor is the time when the proof was submitted to the pension insurance provider.
The contribution will be paid by the pension insurance provider to the long-term care insurance provider.

Please contact your pension insurance provider if you have questions about how your contribution is calculated. You can find details of your pension insurance provider on your pension notices, for example.

Here you will also find an overview of all the pension insurance providers in Germany.