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The digital pension overview is intended to make your own retirement benefits clearer. We explain who can benefit from the project.
the German pension insurance wants to make pensions more digital. To this end, she is working on a new online portal that will offer citizens the opportunity to get an online overview of their individual pension entitlements. The special feature: not only information on state pensions should be available. Data on company pensions, private pensions and supplementary pensions should also be made available via the portal for retrieval.
Digital pension overview: The online portal offers these advantages
The offer would thus contain all relevant information for the future pension bundle up. So far, interested parties have had to find out about their pension entitlements from the respective pension institutions. This is time consuming and can lead to confusion when different service providers present the data in different ways. The digital portal of the German pension insurance, on the other hand, should provide more clarity for the pension. Also read: The pension insurance company warns of this scam
In principle, everyone can benefit from this. Because with the portal it would be much easier than before to get an overview of the future pension rights and – if necessary – put more money aside for old age. But all this is still a dream of the future: the portal does not yet exist. However, the central office for the digital pension overview (ZfDR) at the German pension insurance has now started to exchange data – a first important step.
Online portal: This is how it will continue until the introduction of the digital pension overview
On the way to the publication of the portal, it should first be tested as a pilot project with voluntary participants and pension funds. away Summer 2023 According to the current plan, citizens should then also be able to access the offer. Regular operation is not expected until the end of 2023.
The structure of the portal can be the Federation, which finances the project, cost a lot: According to its own statements, it expects costs of around 20 million euros for the development that will keep it running until the end of 2023. According to this, annual operating costs of around 4.5 million euros are calculated. (fmg)
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