If you are required to provide proof of life this year, you will receive the 2024 Digital Proof of Life letter and the 2024 certificate of life form together with your pension adjustment notification. They will be sent to you by letter mail sometime between mid-June and the start of August. Renten Service in Germany must receive your proof of life by Friday, August 16, 2024. If your pension adjustment notification does not include a proof-of-life request for 2024, you do not need to take any further action this year. If you receive more than one pension, more than one proof of life may be needed.

• Pension beneficiaries residing abroad:
  Since you are entitled to German pension payments from a statutory pension or accident insurance provider, you must submit evidence upon request that you continue to meet the requirements to receive those payments.
• Pension beneficiaries residing in Germany:
  Since you live in Germany, are a pension beneficiary of German pension payments from a statutory pension or accident insurance provider, and have a bank account abroad, you must provide annual proof of life beginning this year.