Foreigner pensioners: You can provide a certificate of life through biometric recognition

If you are a retired person living abroad, your French pension fund may ask you to prove your existence in order to continue to pay your retirement pensions: you must then provide a certificate of life.

To provide a certificate of life, you can:

• send it by post, once completed by the competent local authorities ;
• transmit via internet from Retirement Info, once supplemented by the competent local authorities ;
• use biometric with your phone.

To confirm your existence with biometric recognition, you need to download the My Life Certificate app, which is available in app markets Android and Apple.

You can find all the conditions, procedures and resources on the Service-Public.fr fact sheet dedicated to the certificate of life.