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.... Thanks.I'm not aware of Agirc sending me anything in previous years, but I was able to see my info online, semestres and points and predicted retraite.In fact I have just had an email from Carsat that strangley went to my Junk box -Votre interlocuteur retraite en région  Nous avons terminé le traitement de votre dossier retraite le  06-05-2021. Votre notification de retraite vous parviendra par courrier dans une dizaine de jours. Votre premier paiement interviendra sous 10 jours en fonction des délais propres à votre établissement bancaire. Si votre situation évolue, signalez-le à votre caisse régionale. Vous souhaitez obtenir un calendrier ou un relevé de vos paiements ? Créez votre espace personnel sur lassuranceretraite.fr ! Recevez nos sincères salutations. So it's all coming in the post.  

Thanks for that link idun. Crikey it's complicated, even with the English translation.Well, in the last couple of days both retraites have kicked-in with their first payments, so that's a relief. I made the applications when I stopped work on my 66th birthday in January. The payments are backdated to 1st March.But, the recent number of semestres they both quoted did not include my last year of work (2020), so I forwarded paperwork for that a few weeks ago. I have just had a tour of the CARSAT state website and it's now all changed and different colours as I'm a receiver rather than a claimer, the 'Check your semestres' option has disappeared, so I'll have to find out somehow if my semestres are correct.

My Complementaire is Agirc-Arrco too, they joined a few pensions together a couple of years ago to make the Agirc Arrco company.

Thanks for that advice idun. I'll give Newcastle a call, good idea.Thankfully it's only a matter of €150 per month for each pension so I can survive delays, it's just the fact they keep moving the start date forward so I lose €300 every month it is delayed.

I feel your pain idun!I'm relieved to discover it is not just me.The French Pension Service really are living in the dark ages, despite their convoluted incomprehensible websites.I have just lost another 2 hours of my life photocopying and printing stuff to send to them, most of which was already sent by mail and uploaded to their website electronically.I have just had the letter from the complementaire asking for proof of my state pension entiltlement too. I called the state pension people asking what actual document this is, they said it's available when you reply to our letter of 9th April stating you are starting your pension before age 76.... I replied to that letter the day after! Do it all again.Yes I thought about sending them my N.I. contributions too, available on my HMRC account page, but didn't as I assumed it would need to come from Newcastle direct. I anticipate this will take the French months to obtain therebye delaying the start of my money well into the future.Thank god the UK Pension was a simple case of a 10 minute phone call to confirm who I am, no heaps of paperwork going to and fro endlessly!

Well suein56, I started my application in January whhen I stopped work, and found their system incredibly complicated, especially my work history record. Add to that there is no office or face to face option to sort problems within an hour of where I live. Consequently both my state and complimentary pensions departments move the starting date forward incrementally because I haven't jumped through their hoops.It's a nightmare.

...... These smileys arent working right for me, didn't mean to put one in the title :-/

I was warned by a work colleague, and it says on the French Pension site they take 3-6 months to administer new pensions.In fact I was looking at my UK Nat Ins record on a HMRC web page this week and thought would it be worth printing it and sending it to Caisse Retraite.I had a Polish girlfriend living with me in England in the 90s and she said UK Govt paperwork is worse than in Russia (she was an English and Russian language teacher). Well, where does that leave the French because I say they are worse than UK !

Thanks for that link, I didn't know about that.

The French Pension service only told me they were waiting for a reply from HMRC to explain the delay in starting my French Pension, they hadn't asked me for any details, my UK address, my Nat Ins number, nothing.HMRC may have asked me about EU employment, I can't remember, but I would have told them if they asked.Anyway, it's looking like I'm getting what's due eventually between the two of them. Presumably I didn't need the S1 form because I was covered here because I was working?Do you have a Mutuelle complimentary health cover too? Mine is quite expensive, €57 p.m. now and rising to €85 next year and €106 in 2023.

Thanks for that link nomossI see HMRC say -'You can also count relevant social security contributions made in EU countries to meet the qualifying conditions for a UK State Pension.'This wasn't done for me as my N.I. record is blank for the years I have lived here.Did they make a mistake in not verifying my contributions here? Is there a box I should have ticked somewhere on the HMRC website?

Thanks idunI have 38 French trimestres but last years are missing at the moment.Yes I have applied for the complementaire retraite too. I returned an envelope of stuff they asked for, verification of work history, missing trimestres etc in March, with a tracking number ..... It got lost in the post, one of the most important envelopes I've posted since living here.

Thanks NormanHI have been in the French health care system since moving here, presumably deductions from wages paid for it, so now I will be covered automatically? That's something I hadn't thought about. I also have a Mutuelle insurance.What is the S1?I exited the UK Tax system when I moved here, I completed the relevant form.In fact I have just searched my HMRC account online to see if I still have a code number, I need to activate a private pension (Bond 32) and was wondering if they'll tax that at source. I'll telephone the private pension to find out.

I have been receiving my UK Pension for a couple of months, paid direct to my French bank. I am in the process of claiming my French State Pension, about €40 per week after working here 10 years. They say they are in process of validating my UK contributions (Nat Ins presumably). This confused me. Then I read somewhere that the two Pensions could be amalgamated and the total paid by one country (I was short on NI contributions and receive £159 p.w.).Does anyone know about this? Could my UK Pension be taken over by and paid with the French one in Euros? Therefore avoiding future £/€ exchange rate losses .