The rights associated with supplementary occupational pension contracts offered by supplementary occupational pension funds or insurance companies are payable to the beneficiary from the earliest of the date of liquidation of his pension under a compulsory old-age insurance scheme to which the beneficiary has contributed or the age mentioned inArticle L. 161-17-2 of the Social Security Code.
If the beneficiary of the contract leaves the company, his pension rights shall remain vested in him.
Membership of a contract mentioned in this section may be subject to a minimum period of presence of the beneficiary in the company. The acquisition of pension rights under the same contract may be subject to a condition of length of contributions. The sum of these two periods may not exceed three years.
The acquisition of pension rights may be subject to a condition as to the age of the beneficiary, which may not exceed twenty-one years.
When the beneficiary leaves the company before having acquired pension rights, the sum of the contributions paid by the employer and, where applicable, the beneficiary, is reimbursed to them.
The rights definitively acquired after the departure from the company and before the liquidation of the pension are revalued annually like those of the beneficiaries who are still in the company or according to the revaluation rate of the pension benefits paid.
The insurer informs the beneficiary, each year and if necessary on request, of the consequences of his departure from the company on the rights he has acquired and on the value or on an evaluation of the rights, as well as on the conditions of acquisition, use and future treatment of the rights. At the request of the beneficiary, and no more than once a year, it shall provide the beneficiary who has left the company, or if he has died, his successors, with information on the value of the rights acquired or on an evaluation of the rights carried out no more than twelve months before the date of the request, as well as on the conditions of use and future processing of the rights.
This article does not apply to schemes covered byarticle L. 137-11 of the Social Security Code which ceased to accept new active members on 20 May 2014 at the latest and have remained closed to new members since at least this date.