As of January 1, 2026, many health insurance providers will increase their supplementary contributions. Your health insurance provider has informed you of this in writing.
In the event that your health insurance provider surcharge increases, the pension paid out to you will decrease. You will also find this information on your account statement.
If you require more information on the health insurance surcharge, please contact your health insurance provider.
Have you received a request to submit your Proof of Life 2025 and have not received your pension payment since the end of November?
If your pension payment was stopped at the end of November, we did not receive your Proof of Life by the deadline at the end of October.
How to submit your Proof of Life:
Please send the original Life Certificate form, signed by you and certified by an official authority, by letter mail to:
Deutsche Post AG
Niederlassung Renten Service
04078 Leipzig
Germany
As soon as your Life Certificate 2025 has been received by the Pension Service in Leipzig, your pension payments will resume.
Important
Detailed information on the Life Certificates 2025 can be found at:
www.rentenservice.de/LB
Note for pension beneficiaries from Italy
Please send us a current Certificato di Residenza.
Pension recipients whose reduced earning capacity pension began between January 2001 and December 2018 automatically receive a flat-rate supplement to their pension. The German statutory pension insurance fund (Deutsche Rentenversicherung) handles the review – you do not have to apply.
What’s new starting with the December 2025 pension:
The supplement will no longer be paid separately but will be combined with the direct deposit of the monthly pension payment.
As a result, your monthly payment will be increased by the amount of your individual supplement.
The change will enter into effect either
on November 28, 2025, when you receive your pension paid in advance
or
on December 30, 2025, when you receive your pension as an arrears payment.
Additional information on the pension supplement for your reduced earning capacity pension can be found online at www.Deutsche-Rentenversicherung.de/Rentenzuschlag
You will receive a pension receipt notification ("Information on the notification to the tax authorities") from your insurance provider for every taxable pension benefit - pension amount and contributions to health and long-term care insurance - within a calendar year.
Pension receipt notifications for statutory pensions can be requested online at
www.deutsche-rentenversicherung.de/steuerbescheinigung.If you received the form for your annual tax return in the past, an up-to-date printed version will now be sent to you by mail between mid-January and the end of February. You don't have to do anything else. Additional information and contact options for the pension receipt notification for statutory pension benefits can be found in our FAQs for Statutory Pensions.
Note: The Pension Service cannot issue you with pension receipt notifications for state pension benefits.
For company pension benefits paid by Deutsche Post Pension Service on behalf of your previous employer, you will automatically receive a pension receipt notification for the previous calendar year by mail sometime between mid-March and the start of April. You don't have to do anything else. Additional information and contact options for the pension receipt notification for company pension benefits are available in our FAQs for company pensioners and allowance beneficiaries.
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