AOW pension - Claiming an AOW pension if you live outside the Netherlands

If you live outside the Netherlands, how to claim an AOW pension depends on where you live.

There are three possibilities.

1. You live in a country of the EU (European Union).
   You have a choice. You can submit your AOW pension claim to the social insurance organization in the country where you live, or in the country where you were last insured. We advise you to submit your claim in the country where you live.

2. You live in a country with which the Netherlands has an agreement on social security or in a country of the the EEA (European Economic Area).
   
   If you are insured under that country's state pension scheme, you should contact the pension agency in that country about your AOW pension claim.
   
   If you are not insured under that country's state pension scheme, you should contact the pension agency in the country where you were last insured. If that was the Netherlands, get in touch with us and we will send you a claim form.

3. You live in a country not referred to above.
   You should contact us, and we will send you a claim form.

If you are already a client of the SVB, you do not have to do anything.

For example, if you get an Anw survivor benefit from us, or a remigration benefit, we will contact you a few months before your 65th birthday.

After you have been awarded an AOW pension, you can log in to My SVB

As soon as we have awarded you an AOW pension, you can request a DigiD login code for My SVB. With that code, you can view your details and read and print out your monthly AOW pension statements from outside the Netherlands 24 hours of the day. You can also report changes that way, e.g. inform us about a new account number.

WIth a DigiD code, you can arrange your AOW pension affairs via My SVB on our website, thus avoiding high telephone costs when contacting us.