How to get your Austria pension statement

Pensionskontoauszug / Versicherungsdatenauszug

Known in English as the Pension account statement / insurance record extract. Look for this name on the site — it may not be translated.

• Your Austrian insurance number (Versicherungsnummer) — the 10-digit number on your e-card, also printed on old Austrian payslips.
• ID Austria (the successor to Handy-Signatur). This is the usual blocker from abroad: it generally has to be activated in person, though Austrian embassies and consulates can register you.
• The names and approximate dates of your Austrian employers, so you can tell whether a gap in the record is real.

1. 1
   Open the Pensionskonto portal

   The Pensionskonto is the running account of everything you have accrued in the Austrian system since 2005, with pre-2005 periods carried in as an opening balance.

   Open this page ↗
2. 2
   Sign in with ID Austria

   You can also reach the same query through oesterreich.gv.at, the central government portal, which uses the same identity.

   Open this page ↗
3. 3
   Read the Kontoerstgutschrift and the annual credits

   The account shows a total credit (Gesamtgutschrift) and what it would pay per month at the statutory age. Austria pays 14 pension instalments a year, so an Austrian monthly figure is not directly comparable with a 12-month country.
4. 4
   Request the full insurance record from PVA

   The Versicherungsdatenauszug lists every insured month with its employer, which is what you need to spot missing periods. PVA is the insurer for private-sector employees; if you were a civil servant or self-employed, your insurer is BVAEB or SVS instead.

   Open this page ↗
5. 5
   Save both documents

   Download the account statement and the insurance record as PDFs. Together they are the evidence for any correction request, and the pair is what an adviser will ask for.

You cannot get an ID Austria from outside Austria

Austrian embassies and consulates can carry out the identification step. If that is not practical, PVA will send the Versicherungsdatenauszug by post on a written request quoting your insurance number and date of birth — slower, but it needs no digital identity.

You do not know your insurance number

It appears on any Austrian payslip, e-card, or correspondence from PVA. If you have none, PVA can trace it from your full name, date and place of birth, and your Austrian employers.

Years you worked in Austria are missing from the account

Periods before 2005 are carried in as a single opening credit rather than shown year by year, which often looks like a gap. Ask PVA for a Kontoklärung (account clarification) and send whatever employment evidence you still hold.

Whether every Austrian consulate can complete the ID Austria identification, and how long the postal record request takes to reach a foreign address.

Upload the statement to your vault and we'll read the figures out of it — balances, benefits, vesting and retirement ages — and tell you what changed since your last one.