UK Bank Account for Payment of French AGIRC/ARRCO Pension

gaddison

I am a newbie to the forum and have a question on payment of a French AGIRC/ARRCO pension into a UK bank account.

I am in the process of claiming a French pension from the time I worked there back in the early nineties. I now live back in the UK.

It has been a painful process as you have to claim it through the DWP and they twice lost or forgot about my claim. Only when I prompted them a third time did something happen. I first contacted them in April and it took them until the end of October to send my information to the French authorities. By contrast the French seem responsive and helpful (famous last words). 

I have a form to fill in for the French social security authorities to specify which bank account I want the pension paid into. In classic French style I need it signed and stamped by the bank.

Do people have any advice on a good (euro?) bank account to use, including the fact that they need to complete this form in French. This would seem to rule out some of the online virtual banks.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Albermarle

Hi,
This forum is quite general for what is quite a complicated question.
You would be better off reposting here.
Pensions, annuities & retirement planning — MoneySavingExpert Forum

Or for questions about bank accounts here.
Budgeting & bank accounts — MoneySavingExpert Forum

Brie

If it makes you feel any better the Canadian pension system also requires bank details to be verified by the receiving bank - so a form that needs to be dated and signed by an officer of the bank.  I pointed out to them that the branch where the money should be paid to doesn't have any appointments for a lengthy time which will unnecessarily delay receipt of the pension.  The response was a somewhat Gallic shrug.

Meanwhile I've asked for this to be moved to the Bank Accounts forum as that seems to be more appropriate.   

WastedWords

HSBC would probably work. Use their EUR currency account to receive. You can then transfer elsewhere for converting to GBP (Trading 212, Atlantic, Wise etc) or HSBC use Global Money Account to exchange to GBP or spend in EUR. You would need an HSBC current account to open the currency and GMA accounts.

gaddison

Albermarle said:

Hi,
This forum is quite general for what is quite a complicated question.
You would be better off reposting here.
Pensions, annuities & retirement planning — MoneySavingExpert Forum

Or for questions about bank accounts here.
Budgeting & bank accounts — MoneySavingExpert Forum

Thank you very much. I will repost it on the Pensions board.

SiliconChip

gaddison said:

Albermarle said:

Hi,
This forum is quite general for what is quite a complicated question.
You would be better off reposting here.
Pensions, annuities & retirement planning — MoneySavingExpert Forum

Or for questions about bank accounts here.
Budgeting & bank accounts — MoneySavingExpert Forum

Thank you very much. I will repost it on the Pensions board.

Please don't. Your thread is already on the Banking board, which is the best place for it, and duplicating threads on multiple boards is bad forum etiquette.

sausage_time

SiliconChip said:

gaddison said:

Albermarle said:

Hi,
This forum is quite general for what is quite a complicated question.
You would be better off reposting here.
Pensions, annuities & retirement planning — MoneySavingExpert Forum

Or for questions about bank accounts here.
Budgeting & bank accounts — MoneySavingExpert Forum

Thank you very much. I will repost it on the Pensions board.

Please don't. Your thread is already on the Banking board, which is the best place for it, and duplicating threads on multiple boards is bad forum etiquette.

I agree - this is the correct place for this discussion.   (Threads which are posted in the wrong place can be moved BTW)

Deec

Hi,
Did you find an answer to your question? I need an account I can open in the UK which can receive French and Belgian pensions. I did open an HSBC account and then a Global Account but they would only let me receive Euros from my HSBC account and even then don't know if I can get the pensions paid in.

lon_don

Boursorama and CA Britline might let you open a [french] account with a french RIB to receive your french pension.

Revolut and Wise, which can receive SEPA payment, might also work, but sometime the Caisses insist on a RIB which those 2 don't have.

Newly_retired

My French pension is paid into my Santander account in £.

gt94sss2

Deec said:

Hi,
Did you find an answer to your question? I need an account I can open in the UK which can receive French and Belgian pensions. I did open an HSBC account and then a Global Account but they would only let me receive Euros from my HSBC account and even then don't know if I can get the pensions paid in.

Have you tried very recently?

HSBC Global Money accounts now support receiving foreign currency payments directly. Previously, you needed to use their foreign currency account before transferring it to their Global Money account.