Contribute to pension in European Countries while i am living and working the UK

sandsy

It's normal to build up state pension entitlement by working in a country.

It doesn't appear possible to build up entitlement without being employed there so (short of cloning yourself and working in two or more countries simultaneously) your best bet is private provision.

coyrls

dazwood wrote: »

I was wondering if anyone knows if we can contribute to the state pension any of those countries austria, sweden and spain while i am working and living in the UK and if this is possible can we get multiple state pensions from those countries.

No you can't. Just in case it wasn't clear from the other replies.

dazwood

Thank you guys for some really good answers. My job is security consultant so if i start doing an online consultant job in Sweden and get paid from Sweden for example will that work as i am working in Sweden and UK at the same but i am living in the UK? Thank you

coyrls

My understanding would be that if you are getting paid in/from Sweden, you can contribute to their state pension but you would not be able to contribute to the UK state pension.

dazwood

Does that mean you can only contribute to only one state pension in Europe? Thanks

coyrls

dazwood wrote: »

Does that mean you can only contribute to only one state pension in Europe? Thanks

[FONT=&quot]I don’t know the terms and conditions for all European state pensions but I’d hazard a guess that you’d need to be paying tax in a country in order to benefit from their state pension. In the UK you don’t “contribute” to a state pension; you have an entitlement to a state pension based on your NI contribution record. Your NI contributions aren’t held as a pension pot for you, they are used to fund the government’s current expenditure (including paying state pensions). When you come to claim your state pension it is paid from the government’s current income, not a “pot”.[/FONT]

dazwood

Thank you is very interesting if people can pay small taxes or contributions cross some EU countries and get two state pensions when it comes to retirement age. Because if i setup my online business in Sweden i will be paying taxes in Sweden and i am paying taxes in UK as well.

kingrulzuk

Norway has a good state pension that gives me a good idea

JezR

The standard arrangements in place are to remove previous compulsions particularly for cross border workers to pay into more than one EU social security system, not to enable it.

This is separate from taxation as many EU countries have a mixed insurance system rather than single state provider.

If you have already been paying through employment into one country's scheme it is though often possible to voluntarily continue paying into it after moving employment to a different one.

grey_gym_sock

dazwood wrote: »

Thank you is very interesting if people can pay small taxes or contributions cross some EU countries and get two state pensions when it comes to retirement age. Because if i setup my online business in Sweden i will be paying taxes in Sweden and i am paying taxes in UK as well.

what, in the eyes of the swedish state, determines whether your online business is in sweden? where you do the work? where your customers are? where the servers are located? the language used? or other factors?

i have no idea what the answer is. but i wonder whether it's as simple as you may be hoping to set up a business "in sweden", if you are actually resident, and spending most of your time, in the UK.