European Court of Justice ruling: Periods of raising children in other EU countries count towards the pension in the country of origin – the EU

Luxembourg

The reason for this is a lawsuit filed by a German woman who lived in the Netherlands for a long time and raised her two children there

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Luxembourg – Anyone raising their children in another EU country can have these times counted towards their pension in their home country. Background to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decision From Thursday, a lawsuit was filed by a German woman who lived in the Netherlands for a long time and raised her two children there. The German pension insurance did not take into account the time she spent raising children in the neighboring country when calculating her pension.