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Life and civil status certificate

Certificate of life OASI

The annual verification of the existence of OASI/DI will be modified by 01.01.2022. The life and civil status certificate will no longer be sent to all the beneficiaries. The concerned beneficiaries will be informed by the Swiss Compensation Office (SCO) and the DI Office for people living abroad (OAIE) by mail. The letter will be sent a month prior to the month when you usually received the life and civil status certificate (e.g. if you received the life and civil status certificate in January, you will receive the letter in December). Please contact us (roma.consolato@eda.admin.ch), if you have received neither the letter nor the life and civil status certificate.

To avoid paying benefits that are not due, the Swiss Compensation Office (SCO) needs to verify that claimants are genuine and actually alive. A certificate of life and marital status is therefore issued to affected claimants on an annual basis. The relevant form is sent to claimants one year after benefits are first paid out. To ensure that pensions continue to be paid without interruption, the form must be completed, certified by the appropriate authority and returned to the SCO in Geneva within 90 days.

Disclosure requirement

In addition to submitting a certificate of life and marital status, claimants must disclose to the office responsible for paying out benefits any change in their personal circumstances which could cause benefits to be discontinued, increased or reduced and any change of address or bank account details.

If you are registered with a Swiss representation, please also inform the representation of any change of address or civil status.

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Last update 13.03.2023