About Foreign Pensions

Thank you for sending us your application for Pension from Austria. Your claim papers were forwarded to that country on 16 January 2008.
If you are receiving an Australian payment and you are advised of the outcome of yor foreign pension claim or you start to receive payments (whichever happens first), you must contact Centrelink International Service within 14 days (28 days if residing outside Australia).
If you are granted the foreign pension:
- your Australian payment(s) will be reassessed and may be reduced when your foreign pension begins; and
- if you receive back payments, you may need to repay some of your Australian payment(s).
Centrelink International Services is not generally kept informed of the progress of your claim. To find out about your claim you can contact Austria directly as follows:
PVA (der Angestellten/Der Arbeiter)
Friedrich Hillegeist Strasse 1
AUSTRIA
If you lodged yor claim through a Patronato or other agency, they will be informed that your claim papers werwsent overseas.