Belgium's Financial Services and Markets Authority has published an opinion clarifying that, where Belgian state pension rights have been transferred to the European Union's statutory pension scheme, the start of the European pension can be treated as retirement and trigger payment of the Belgian supplementary pension, whose payout is linked to the statutory pension start date.
Belgium's Financial Services and Markets Authority clarifies supplementary pension payout trigger after state pension transfers to EU scheme
Belgium's Financial Services and Markets Authority considers that the start of a European Union pension can trigger payment of a Belgian supplementary pension where the individual has transferred their Belgian state pension rights to the European Union's statutory pension scheme.