Old-age pension (telephone appointment)

If you would like to apply for your old-age pension, you can make an appointment by telephone.

Description

  • If you submit the application to us within the set deadline, you have met the statutory deadline.
  • The clerks complete all application forms online and forward them directly to the relevant pension provider. This ensures quick, prompt and complete processing by the pension provider.

The following old-age pensions are available:

  • Standard old-age pension
  • Old-age pension for long-term insured persons
  • Old-age pension for severely disabled people
  • Old-age pension for particularly long-term insured persons

Alternatively, you can also arrange a personal application appointment.

Prerequisites

  • You must live or work in Munich.
  • Old-age pensions are monthly payments from the statutory pension insurance scheme that insured persons can receive from a certain age. The required minimum insurance period ("qualifying period") must be fulfilled and the special insurance and personal requirements must be met.

Required documents

A copy of the required documents may need to be submitted for a telephone appointment.

  • Identity card or passport
  • Insurance history or pension information
  • Bank details including IBAN and BIC (see bank statement)
  • Health insurance card
  • Tax identification number
  • Severely disabled person's pass and certificate
  • Birth certificates of children
  • Apprenticeship contract or certificate, school or university certificates from the age of 17, also from abroad
  • Foreign insurance certificates (e.g. work book, diploma)
  • Proof of social benefits (e.g. unemployment benefit I and II, sickness benefit)
  • Proof of company pensions

Duration & Costs

Fees

Free of charge

Questions & Answers

No, every pension must be applied for. All pensions have deadlines within which they must be applied for; old-age pensions should be applied for in good time, i.e. at least three months before the desired pension start date.

Landeshauptstadt München

Kreisverwaltungsreferat
Hauptabteilung III
Gewerbeangelegenheiten und Verbraucherschutz
Versicherungsamt

Appointment

Make appointment

Internet

Postal address

Landeshauptstadt München
Kreisverwaltungsreferat
Hauptabteilung III
Gewerbeangelegenheiten und Verbraucherschutz
Versicherungsamt

Ruppertstraße 19
80466 München

Fax: +49 89 233-44139

Address

Implerstraße 11
81371 München

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