The Institute, with message 9 October 2024, n. 3351, published the implementing provisions of the bilateral agreement between Italy and Japan on the methods of submitting pension applications under the national regime to the INPS and the Japan Pension Service, the competent Japanese institution.
This result is also the result of INPS’s constant dialogue with foreign institutions for the benefit of insured persons and pensioners; dialogue which takes shape, for example, in international social security agreements such as, among the most recent, the bilateral agreement with the Republic of Moldova, the agreements for the electronic exchange of death data and pension amounts with Dutch institutions SVB and UWV, as well as with the Australian Social Security Institute Centrelink.
Furthermore, the organization of the International Social Security Information Days, carried out in collaboration with the social security institutions of European countries such as Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland, also takes on particular importance: it is an opportunity both to provide integrated specialist consultancy to the insured on the requirements for obtaining the benefits, thanks to the contextual participation of INPS officials and foreign social security institutions, both to promote operational meetings between representatives of the patronages, the INPS and foreign institutions, aimed at the ever-improving management of pension practices.
With a view to improving the pension payment service abroad, the Institute is also involved in two complex initiatives:
- the gradual elimination of the allowance as a method of paying pensions abroad;
- the campaign to verify the existence of pensioners who collect abroad.
These campaigns are of considerable importance, in particular because they aim to reduce the risk of providing undue benefits.
