If you receive ATP Livslang Pension, payments will stop when you die, i.e. no one can inherit your pension.
When you die your cohabitant may be entitled to a lump sum payment from ATP Livslang Pension. It is important that your relatives contacts ATP as we are not automatically informed about deaths that occur outside of Denmark.
If you die before you reach the Danish retirement age, your cohabitant may be entitled to a lump sum payment of DKK 75,000 before taxes. 40 percent of the lump sum will be deducted as tax for Skattestyrelsen (the Danish State).
The lump sum decreases by DKK 15,000 each year following the year after you reach the Danish retirement age. Your cohabitant must make a request for the payment of the lump sum no later than five years after the date of your death. Five years after you reach the Danish retirement age, the amount will lapse entirely.
Conditions for receiving payment
- You would have been able to get legally married during the last two years before the death
- You have lived in a marriage-like relationship, and you must not be related to one another or separated
- You have shared the same registered address for the last two years before the death
- The deceased has been a member of ATP Livslang Pension for at least two years after 1 January 2002 and has paid the equivalent of at least two full years of contributions to ATP Livslang Pension.
- The death occurred no later than five years after the deceased reached the Danish retirement age. Danish retirement age depends on your year of birth.
Which documents are needed?
In addition to the death certificate your cohabitant also need to send those following documents to request payment of the lump sum:
- Documentation that you have shared the same registered address for at least two years prior to death
- A color copy of your passport or other picture ID
- Bank information
Complete the following form to request payment of the lump sum:
Which documents does a cohabitant need to send, if you had a shared residence abroad?
Documentation for joint place of residence in Sweden
You must order a population registration certificate (personbevis) for you and the
deceased from the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket).
Documentation for joint place of residence in Norway
You must order the address information from the Norwegian National Registry for you
and the deceased from the Norwegian Tax Administration (Skatteetaten).
Documentation for joint place of residence in Finland
You must order the address information for you and the deceased from the Finnish Digital and Population Data Services Agency, Väestörekisterikeskus
Documentation for joint place of residence in Iceland
You must order the address information for you and the deceased from the Icelandic Population Register,
Þjóðskrá Íslands.
Documentation for joint place of residence in Germany
You must order the address information for you and the deceased from the local national register
office/citizen service centre (Einwohnermeldeämte).
Documentation for joint place of residence in Spain
You must order the address information for you and the deceased from the local national register office.
Documentation for joint place of residence in other countries
You need to contact a competent authority in your country of residence, which will issue a certificate for the
address, such as a central or local national register office, for you and the deceased. Please enclose the name
and contact details of the authority.