Maastricht University's Institute for Transnational and Euregional cooperation and Mobility (ITEM) is preparing for the introduction of a new online service that would allow citizens in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium to check how much pension they have accrued in another Member States. The project will start in 2016 and can be considered a pilot for the introduction of a similar system for all EU Member States. The preliminary phase, which includes just three countries, is necessary given the complexity of implementing an EU-wide system that is likely to take fifteen years to complete. This pilot will contribute to Track and Trace Your Pension (TTYPE), the European pension information system the EU is striving to implement. TTYPE and the new pilot are just two of the cross-border initiatives that will be discussed at the opening conference of ITEM on 30 and 31 October 2015 in Maastricht.
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Read moreJetta Klijnsma, state secretary at the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs, has said she will consider including third-pillar superannuation figures in the Pensions Register’s estimates for future pension income.
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