Since the end of 2019, all of France’s retirement pension schemes began using the Shared Verification of Existence (MCE) program for pensioners residing abroad. It was extended in 2022 to residents of New-Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna.
From now on, if you are in one of these cases, you are only required to prove your existence once (and only once) a year in order to continue drawing all of your pensions, however many different French pension schemes are actually paying you a pension.
Please refer to our informational guide entitled Certificate of existence/ certificate of life (MCE).