Retirement: 1 in 8 files contains an error, 7 tips to avoid them

The Court of Auditors recently reported the presence of numerous errors in the pension files presented in 2023. According to Capital, “out of 885,000 new pensions paid in 2023, almost one in eight contains at least one error of financial significance , to your advantage or to your expense”. As these errors multiply, it is recommended to be attentive when filing your retirement application. Here are 7 tips to avoid mistakes.

If retirement is regularly looked forward to, it can be accompanied by long administrative procedures, which can be strewn with errors. It is therefore recommended to think about retirement as early as possible because the path to the long-awaited retirement pension can be strewn with pitfalls. As reported by the Court of Auditors, for 2023, the frequency of errors in retirement files is estimated at 12.4% compared to 11.8% in 2022, a slight increase. It is therefore advisable to be careful when submitting your retirement application.

The authors of the report discuss the efforts made by the National Old Age Insurance Fund (CNAV) to stem these errors. However, they believe that “the significant deterioration in indicators in 2023, the level of which exceeds that observed before 2021, demonstrates a financial quality of the liquidated files that remains fragile”. However, in 2023, the pension funds carried out “more than 172,000 service revisions”, even if there are still unknowns regarding the time frame for these corrections. In order to avoid seeing an error slip into your pension file, we offer you 7 tips.

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