When should you take action?

Your ex-partner is entitled to half the retirement pension you accrued during the marriage or the period of the registered partnership. You can make alternative arrangements with your ex-partner. You will need to record these agreements in a divorce agreement. You or your former partner must let us know within two years what agreements you have made, in order to ensure that the former partner receives part of the retirement pension directly from the fund. If you fail to do this within the set term, you will have to pay the part of the retirement pension belonging to your former partner to your former partner yourself.

Note: The right to a portion of the retirement pension does not apply to unmarried couples living together. Unmarried people who are living together must make their own arrangements for the distribution of the retirement pension.

Your ex-partner is also entitled to the partner’s pension that you accrued until the date of divorce or termination of the registered partnership. You do not have to take any action in respect of this right to partner’s pension, unless your ex-partner waives this right, in which case you must inform the pension fund.

Note: Unmarried people who live together may also be entitled to a partner's pension. 

More information

The regulations set out precisely what you will receive in our pension scheme. The regulations can be downloaded here (in Dutch).