Sometimes people forget that they have vested benefits; this is especially true when foreign workers leave Switzerland definitively. The brochure entitled “Vested benefits: don’t forget your retirement assets!” explains what vested benefits are and sets out the various situations where action needs to be taken. It also provides information on where help can be obtained if someone suspects that they have due to them vested benefits they had forgotten about.
When a person who is insured under an occupational benefit plan (2nd pillar) leaves his or her pension fund before an insured event occurs – after changing employer, for example, or as a result of being made unemployed – the pension fund issues a statement showing the amount owed to that person. This amount is referred to as the person’s vested benefits, or departure benefit.
The purpose of this money is to fund the retirement phase, which is why it is not freely available to the insured pension. If vested benefits cannot be transferred immediately to the pension fund of a new employer they must be deposited with a bank or a vested-benefits institution.
Documents
- Vested benefits: don’t forget your retirement assets! (PDF, 3 MB, 21.11.2024)
- Freizügigkeitsleistung: Vergessen Sie Ihre Vorsorgeguthaben nicht! (PDF, 3 MB, 21.11.2024)
- Prestation de libre passage : n’oubliez pas vos avoirs de prévoyance ! (PDF, 3 MB, 21.11.2024)
- Prestazione di libero passaggio: non dimenticate i vostri averi di previdenza! (PDF, 3 MB, 21.11.2024)
- Prestación de libre paso: ¡No se olvide de sus fondos de previsión! (PDF, 3 MB, 21.11.2024)
- Prestação de livre circulação: não se esqueça dos seus haveres de previdência! (PDF, 3 MB, 21.11.2024)
- Përfitimi nga kursimet me disponim të lirë: Mos harroni depozitën tuaj të përkujdesjes! (PDF, 3 MB, 21.11.2024)
- Uštedjeni kapital: Ne zaboravite svoju preventivnu štednju! (PDF, 3 MB, 21.11.2024)
- Ek emeklilik sigorta mevduatı alacağı: Emeklilik sigorta mevduatlarınızı unutmayın! (PDF, 3 MB, 21.11.2024)
Order
Printed copies can be ordered free of charge from the Federal Office for Buildings and Logistics (FOBL).
Vested benefits: Order information sheet
Last modification 11.06.2020