PensionHunter

The countries PensionHunter covers, each with its ISO code and one sourced line on what exists there, and separately the countries we have mapped but not yet researched, each with the institution that pays its old age pension. Takes one optional input, language, for our own sentences in any of 27 languages.

One country's facts, the official free routes first: freeOfficialRoute (never empty for a covered country; each route with what it does, the scheme it covers and whether it works from abroad) and contactAbroad (an official contact for people living abroad), then whatIsHardFromAbroad (honest and specific, one fact per scheme and process: tracing, record or payment), what the money is worth and date

For each country in a work history: whether a pension is likely to exist and why, with a verdict that says what it depends on (Singapore CPF depends on citizen, permanent resident or pass holder status) and a reason that fits the years, birth year and employer given (a rule or figure valid only for other dates is never quoted), the free official routes and an official contact abroad first, what is

Three things about an employer name, typed however the person remembers it. First, the country it implies, from evidence in the name: a country name, a city (from our sourced city table, so "London" places it in the United Kingdom and "Kuala Lumpur" in Malaysia), a nationality word or a national legal form. Second, the employers we hold that the name may mean, matched after setting aside city, leg

What a national pension institution told us in writing, as published on our answers page: the institution, its answer exactly as published, any translation marked as ours, the date of the reply and the link to that answer on pensionhunter.ai/answers. The question is free text, matched to the questions we hold answers to for that country; when nothing matches, the result lists those questions. When

For a country the person left, and the date they left or, where the clock runs from a death, the date of death: the date our deadline register's rule gives, by adding the period stated in the register row to that date. The free official route comes first, with the official source page, the verbatim quote and the date we read it. Rows whose start event is not stated, or is not the date given, are r

Returns a link to our order page, with the report and the countries the person chose filled in, and the fee from our price config. The order page leads to payment: a Stripe checkout is opened there only when the person chooses to pay, never by this call. Call it when the person asks to order or asks what an order costs. Send only the countries and the tier, never a name, email address or any other

What GPFR, the Global Pension Finding Register is, in the caller's language: a free register where people who worked abroad add themselves once and, as pension funds join, they check it for former members they cannot reach. Free for people; funds and trustees pay per confirmed match. Nothing is shared unless the person and the fund both say yes. Returns the register page in that language, the cons

Registers a person in GPFR. First show the person the consent sentence from gpfr_info (consent.text), word for word, in their language, and ask whether they agree. Call this only after they say yes, with consent.consent_text_version equal to the consent.version you showed and person_said_yes: true. Send their email, full name, date of birth, work periods (country, years, optional employer and fund

The status of a GPFR registration. Call it with the reference from gpfr_register: we email a one-time code to the registered address, and the answer is the same whether the reference exists or not. Call again with the reference and the code the person reads out: the answer is one of pending_email_confirmation, registered, possible_match_awaiting_your_yes or confirmed_by_fund. Nothing else is retur

For fund-side agents: how many confirmed, plausible people are registered for a pension fund, shown from 10 upwards, otherwise "fewer than 10". An aggregate only: no registrant is ever listed or identifiable.