Citizens of Ukraine with work experience in Poland can receive a pension in this country. But there are certain requirements for this, since there are different procedures for calculating pensions for different categories of pensioners.. EWW writes about it..

Can Ukrainians get a Polish pension.

There are three age groups of pensioners who can receive a pension in Poland:.

The first group (people born before 1949) - this category can claim the minimum pension in Poland. Women need to have 20 years of experience, and men - 25 years. For example, a person worked in Poland for only a year or two, and in Ukraine for 30-40 years.. This will be enough for the seniority to be counted and the person will be able to receive a pension in Poland.

The second group (people born between 1949 and 1969) - the pension of this category of persons will depend on how much taxes the person and his employer paid to ZUS and the Pension Fund in Poland. The amount of the pension can be any, even one zloty per month. It all depends on the amount of taxes paid and on how long a person worked in Poland before reaching retirement age (60-65 years).

The third group (persons born after 1969) - people from this group are in approximately the same situation as people from the previous group. Their pension will depend on the level of taxes they have paid while working all their lives..

Experts noted that the situation in the third group is still better than in the second.. In the second category, the employer paid taxes either to ZUS or to the Pension Fund, and in the third - to both organizations.

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How to apply for a pension in Poland.

For this you need:.

go to ZUS website;

find the section with forms;

fill out the form for receiving a pension;

send the form to an email address.

Documents are filled out in Polish. If a person does not know Polish well, he can seek help from a lawyer.

The form must contain the following information:.

Full name;

pesel;

Address for correspondence;

residential address;

place and time of work.

Recall that Ukrainians can independently find out the size of the pension using a special electronic service from the Pension Fund of Ukraine. This can be done using the pension calculator.