Payment of pension and payment dates

Your pension will be paid into your account on the first banking day of each month. You can view the amount of your pension, the withholding of tax and the payment date in Ilmarinen’s MyPension service.

Where is pension paid to and when?

Your first pension will be paid into your account within around one week of having received a pension decision from us. If your pension has not yet begun, the pension will be paid into your account on the first banking day of the month in which your pension starts. A banking day means a day during which banks are open.

Thereafter, your pension will be paid into your account once a calendar month, always on the first banking day of the month. If the first day of the month is a Saturday or a public holiday, the pension will arrive in your account on the following weekday. The payment date cannot be postponed to the previous month, as the right to a pension arises on a monthly basis and according to the law, occupational pension can only be paid once a month.

Pension payment dates

Month Payment date
January 3.1.2022
February 1.2.2022
March 1.3.2022
April 1.4.2022
May 2.5.2022
June 1.6.2022
July 1.7.2022
August 1.8.2022
September 1.9.2022
October 3.10.2022
November 1.11.2022
December 1.12.2022

 

Change of account number or address

If your account number changes, report your new account number to us in our MyPension service. You may also send us your new account number in a letter that includes your personal identity code and signature.

You do not need to do anything if your address changes. We will receive the information on your new address from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency within around one month. If you wish, you can inform us of your new address in our MyPension service. The trustee must notify Ilmarinen of any change of address.

Payment of pension abroad

Your pension or rehabilitation benefit can also be paid to your foreign bank account. If pension is paid to a country outside the EU and EEA, the Finnish intermediary bank deducts an intermediary fee from the pension. The foreign receiver bank may deduct fees from the pension also when the pension is paid to an EU or EEA country. To find out how much a foreign bank’s fees are, contact your bank directly.

Check the correct payment details from your foreign bank

For payments abroad, we require the following information:

  • Your account number in the international IBAN format
  • Your foreign bank’s BIC or SWIFT code

Taxation of pensioners living abroad

Withholding tax is deducted from pensions paid abroad. The withholding tax amount depends on, among other things, your citizenship, the duration of your stay abroad and the tax treaties between your country of residence and Finland.

Those who have lived abroad for three years in addition to the year of their relocation are usually considered to reside permanently abroad. As a rule, they have limited tax liability in Finland. We will receive the pension tax card for those with limited tax liability from the tax authority. If you have just moved abroad, you have general tax liability and you must apply to the Finnish tax authority for a pension tax card. 

Tax card and tax return from Finland to a foreign country >

Country of residence enquiry once a year

We annually check the information of our pension recipients living abroad to avoid undue pension payments. Notify us immediately if your address abroad changes.

At the turn of the year, we will send you a residence questionnaire that you must fill in and return to us in order for the payment of your pension to continue without interruption. The questionnaire is not sent to countries whose authorities provide us with the necessary information, such as Sweden, Norway and Germany.

  1. Check the amount of the pension and the date of payment

    When you log in to the MyPension service, you will see the amount and payment date of your pension. You can also get a certificate of the amount of your pension.

    Log in to MyPension service

  2. Taxation of pensions

    The pension is taxable income like other earnings.

    Read more about taxation of pensions

If your retirement starts retroactively

We will also pay your pension retroactively. If you have received any other benefit during this period from, for example Kela or the unemployment fund, we will find out from the payer whether the retroactive pension will be paid to them in part or in full.