Social Security
- Filing application for determination of the applicable social security system
- Applying for exemption agreements based on totalization agreements
- Consultation for all matters pertaining to social security in the home and host countries
- Determination of applicable social security legal system during the foreign assignment
- Supporting the change to a foreign social security system
- Consultation on pension apportionment abroad
- Consultation on family allowance, child subsidy, short-time-compensation during the foreign assignment
- Application for refund of social retirement fund contributions
The optimal solutions for taxes and social security topics are often diametrically opposed to one another. The obligation to make social security contributions can change when working abroad. The special European provisions and bilateral totalization agreements can have an impact on whether or not you can remain in your social security system.
We will give the advice you need. A solution is often possible that enables the company to reduce costs while providing the employee with additional social security.
Planning to spend an extended period of time in another country as a local hire? If so, then you will most likely be faced with the question of whether you will go back home or if you will change social security systems altogether. This places your retirement provisions, together with the imputation of the contributions you have already paid ahead of all others. We would be more than happy to walk you through this matter as well.