Paphos Life

Thank you mikos939 for the reply. But I started to receive my monthly pension from Cyprus in April last year, starting with a backdated lump sum, then continued monthly payments from May 2025. But in November 2025, I received a form from the Cyprus Pension office in Nicosia, informing me I needed to...

UPDATE: I finally found someone who could witness my declaration, sign and stamp it on Monday morning of this week. My medical centre sat on it for 10 days, only adding a note into the system last Thursday after I went and stood in front of the reception desks and asked pertinent questions. Got a me...

Hiya Maggie

Thank you for the info.

I will take a photo of it as well as the Registered Mail envelope once our post office ladies have done the necessary stackers and email the Cyprus Pension office a copy.

At least I will be able to track it.

Cheers and a Happy New Year to you xx

Hi Maggie

My letter arrived when we were away on holiday.
Now, the task of finding someone locally who can sign and stamp it.
Apparently, Councillors can sign but I don't believe ours have an official stamp and we don't have a solicitor.

That should be fun!

It's something I had to do when I lived in Cyprus for one of my UK pensions, but without having to resort to a solicitor.

Update:
Received this morning

Thanks, sounds like something is going on then.

Hmmm, I just checked my online account and my monthly Cypriot pension payment doesn't appear to have hit my UK bank account today - anyone else in the UK experienced the same thing, please?

I worked for almost 12 years in Cyprus before I returned to the UK in 2016 - paying SI contributions. I started to receive my Cypriot pension paid to me in the UK, in early October 2024 - backdated with a lump sum, on top of my UK DWP pension which I paid into from the age of 16yrs and until I left ...

A quick update to this thread.... Exactly as Maggie B advised - today (the last Thursday of the month), my first proper monthly Cyprus pension payment - has dropped into my newly created UK bank account. It seems that my accumulated Social Insurance contributions payments whilst working in Cyprus fo...

Hi Maggie, I'm sure there must be more than just us and yes; let's hope it will help others who find themselves in a similar position. Once I got in contact with Andreas it was like having a personal hotline and, oddly enough I was chatting online with a friend who moved to Cyprus at the same time a...

Maggie B, I got a short email from Cyprus this morning to confirm I will definitely be receiving a monthly pension payment. That was a nice start to the day 8-) We took ourselves off on the bus to Arrecife and had a wander around the old town area, where we sat and had a drink and a pizza at one of ...

Excellent, Maggie :) Thank you very much for that. It means I can fly off on holiday at the weekend, feeling more settled about the future! I shall sit back and keep an eye on my bank account. Are Cyprus pensions paid on a specific date each month for everyone do you know? I'm still trying to get my...

You need 15 years of paying social in Cyprus, you will not receive a Cypriot pension, I'm sure this was already mentioned in your previous posts. (EU law) the credits you paid here are sent to the UK to top up your UK pension. I'm in the same boat, paid 13 years social here & receiving nothing....

I left my bag on the seatback of a chair (twice) at different places in Limassol - one being on the main road outside the KFC where we'd stopped off for a drink on the way back from our wanderings. This was in the first few months of arriving as permanent residents in 2004. I hate carrying a bag so ...

I used to love being able to see the snow on the top of the mountains as I headed out of my village in Ypsonas in the direction of the highway slipway. The road faced directly up to the mountains and then as I swung around onto the slipway - I got a glorious view of the blue of the sea with the sun ...

So, my paperwork arrived today and I'm still really non the wiser. Typical Cyprus legalities where emails provide straightforward information but the nitty gritty of it all, goes completely around the houses without saying anything concrete at all. I've received the arrears as referred to, with paym...

Ah, thanks Maggie. I sent an email to K. Andreas but not sure when the offices will close for Easter. My official UK retirement was September last year so I'm looking at 6 to 7 months. It sounds like I will have to wait for the paperwork. I will post back when I have the official answer. If it's the...

Hi Shell I was told by Andreas on 6th November my claim was being examined . . . . .and I received my backdated pension from March on 28the November. So, approximately 3 weeks. Hope this helps. Maggie B PS. I think I got a letter a few days later. UPDATE TODAY I just received 2 separate transfers i...

That's great, Maggie
Hopefully then, if mine is similar - it could all be sorted and I will know what's happening before we head off to Lanzarote.

I will update when I hear back.

Thanks again.

Shell