French pension stopped

woolly_wombat

I hope you receive your pension payments soon.

As you will have observed, nigelbb is the French pensions expert on MSE.

I am pleased to report that Mr WW has recently started to receive his French pensions. It has only taken 3 years, a year less than he worked in France, and an enormous amount of help from a Francophile friend. It has been a bit of a nightmare but well worth the end result

Newly_retired

Glad to read of Mr WW's success.
My French pension payments have finally landed. Not a huge sum, but welcome. No ID update requested either. Just as well as our Town Clerk has just resigned and she normally signs it.

Newly_retired

Ten months back payments and now the normal monthly payment received. At last.

xylophone

Ten months back payments and now the normal monthly payment received.

And you'll be blowing it on.....what?

nigelbb

One of my French pensions is a private annuity that pays €91/month. Three years ago when the pension started I had it paid into a UK bank account but now as I am living in France most of the time it is paid into my French bank account. A few months back I had a request for signed & stamped confirmation of address by someone official & a signed & stamped confirmation of my UK bank details from three years ago to "complete my dossier". I ignored this & a couple of months ago noticed that payments had stopped. I emailed them & was informed that payments were stopped because I hadn't sent the required documents. I got our town clerk to stamp & sign a confirmation of my current address which is different to my address three years ago. I sent this along with a copy of the signed & stamped confirmation of my UK bank details that I already sent them three years ago & should already have been in my dossier. Shortly afterwards my back payments were paid & my regular payments restarted. All this without any notification when payments were stopped or restarted.

Newly_retired

French bureaucracy.

suechy

I wanted to reply to a post on a now-closed thread re Attestation d'existence:
"He has now received an 'attestation d'existence' form which has to be completed by a relevant authority. I understand he will have to go through this rigmarole on an annual basis to prove that he is still alive and kicking. I am also aware that this can be done at the French Consulate in London:
That's straightforward at the moment, but could become more difficult in future with age and infirmity"
I take my form to a local solicitor who signs and stamps it and charges £5 which goes into their charity box.  This form has always been accepted.

I am now signed up to Info Retraite online (without France Connect).  I tried to submit my 'certificat de vie' online but got a message that I needed to have a valid email address on my contact preferences.  I checked and I do - or so I thought, as I get a monthly email confirming my pension payment.  I phoned the IT help desk and discovered that an email address ending .co.uk is not 'valid'!  I need to get a .com one - just for this purpose?  I shall revert to sending it by post.

The problem I encountered last year trying to register with France Connect was that my 13-digit social security number is missing an additional 2 check digits - does anyone know how to acquire these?

DeepSporran

suechy said:

The problem I encountered last year trying to register with France Connect was that my 13-digit social security number is missing an additional 2 check digits - does anyone know how to acquire these?

From Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INSEE_code 

At bottom of section labelled National Identification number there is an algorithm described to yield the 2 digit control key.

The last code is obtained by a mathematical method (dividing by 97 the number formed by the first 13 digits, taking the remainder from this division, and then the "complement to 97", that is the difference between 97 and this remainder): this gives the control key code.

I've tried this on my own French SS number (I worked in France for a few years in the 90s) and it yielded the correct key  "96" in my case.

I had to do the calculation in a spresdsheet because my calculator doesnt have enough digits and I'm too lazy to carry out long division on paper.

suechy

Many thanks for this advice.  Talk about jumping through hoops - I hope my children's A-level maths will be up to it!