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Transferring your unemployment benefit ?

1 min read Aug 04, 2020

Dear Community,

I’d like to raise here a question of social security for MSCA-fellows. As mobile researchers, we have to work and pay social security contribution in a country, we aren’t citizen or permanent residents of. It might oftentimes create bureaucratic or language barriers to access social security benefits.

While some situations are pretty straightforward and might be resolved with a U2 form, I believe that some can be quite complex and vary a lot from one member state to another.

For example, I’ve been employed and paying benefits in Italy, while being a resident of Latvia and a non-EU citizen. I’m embarking today on this “bureaucratic journey” and will update this thread as the situation unfolds.

Though, I thought it would be cool if more people share their experiences and (hopefully encouraging) stories. If this happens so, I would be happy to put it all together into some kind of a tutorial or knowledge recourse from all the information I’ll manage to gather for the benefit of the future MSCA-fellows.

Thank you.

Marina Bluma

1 Comments

Boris Voronin

Aug 04, 2020

The idea is good, even useful. But if we divide 100,000 MSCA alumni into 150 countries, 20 years old, 15,000 who have filled out the questionnaire on the site, into several thousand active users of the MCAA, take into account that the laws in all countries can change, and pension, tax, and work permits and for social welfare, then everything turns out quite individually. Although I may not be right, and in the EU everything is similar. I had some experience in England with tax and pension refunds - for example, I pointed out that my job at UCL is my first, not my second, and therefore I am entitled to less my tax, like everyone else. Previously, in a group on FB, where there were about 5,000 people, similar questions arose periodically, but they were not very popular (I saw little response). Anyway - Best regards.