Originally Posted by
Taunton Blue Genie
I contributed to a German State Pension for about 15 months in the late 70's - and three of those months I was on 'Schlechtwettergeld' (i.e. paid only a proportion of my wages when the weather wouldn't permit me to work as a labourer on a building site) and for three weeks between jobs I was on the German dole. For that 15 months my German pension will be around 5% of the value of my UK State Pension!
The moral of the story is: build up a State Pension elsewhere once you have contributed for the required period in the UK.
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