Our Services
Situation Analysis and Suggestions
We analyze the present situation of your foreign pension-insurance and offer a suggestion how to proceed in order to achieve a satisfactory solution to your problem.
Entitlement Identification
We will work together with you and identify your specific entitlements by collecting all proofs of income and of your Social Security contributions. In cases where there are no proofs available and/or your German Social Security number is unknown to you we will contact the proper administration offices and undertake a thorough investigation and obtain the number and other proofs for you.
Contribution and Entitlement Scheduling
We will assist you in securing the complete and chronological schedule of your contributions and entitlements from the German Social Security administration.
Application Assistance
We also will assist you with applying for benefits due to age, disability, the death of your spouse and/or the death of your primary guardian(s).
Benefit Investigation
We will investigate what benefits you are entitled to.
Clearing and Securing Periods
We will assist you with clearing and securing waiting-periods, substitute times, periods of reduced and/or suspended contributions as well as periods of child-raising etc.
Correspondence Handling
We will handle all correspondence (in German) with the German Social Security Administration. If certain documents need to be translated into English or German, you may, for a small fee, use our translation services.
Optimization Suggestions
We will offer suggestions how to optimize the yields of your entitlements.
Document Scrutiny
If necessary official documents will be scrutinized by a certified Social Security advisor.
Legal Representation
We also will argue your interest in the court of law or in out-of-court procedures through hiring an attorney or with the help of a court-appointed public defender.
Who we are
We are a private service organization that assists German, Austrian and Swiss pension insurance policyholders resident abroad in settling their pension insurance matters in the respective countries.
The Office for Foreign Social Securities (ofss) is an American-European joint venture. We are specialized to assist not only American and Canadian residents but any German and/or English speaking person(s) in safeguarding his or her financial interests, which were acquired through work in Germany, Switzerland and/or Austria. This covers any social security entitlements that had accrued.
We are maintaining a network of specialists in Germany, Switzerland and Austria who we will consult if necessary to help us with bringing a solution to any sticky problem we may come accross. Among those specialists are attorneys who will argue any disputes in front of local courts.
We begin our procedure with an analysis of our client's situation in regard to his or her foreign pension insurance and will subsequently upon the client's request work out a detailed plan of action. If this meets the client's approval we will discuss and decide on a fee for said services, which will, aside of an initial upfront payment, be due only when we have delivered our promised results.
The homepage of our website offers a summary of the fundamental aspects in regard to the workings of the German, Swiss and Austrian social security administrations. You also will find useful suggestions how we can be of help to you.
As a first step we suggest that you fill out one of our questionnaires, which have been tailored to German, Swiss and Austrian specifications in regard to these countries' pension insurances. We will analyze the questionnaire and give you a quick response. For this we will charge you only $ 25.00. In addition, and this is free of charge, we will provide you with an interpretation of your actual circumstances regarding possible entitlements upon which you may decide how you want to proceed, using our services to clear up and/or solve specific problems.
Take the first step and secure your entitlements.
Please give us your trust.
Without any obligation to you we will give you a general idea about your situation regarding your pension insurance. We will answer all your questions and offer suggestions how to solve your problem(s) and that is our promise!
