Overview

• Deutsche Post confirmed the ZzV cash payout ends at year‑end 2025, moving all statutory pensions to SEPA transfers.
• Letters have gone to the roughly 3,300 remaining cash recipients instructing them to provide account details by December 31, 2025.
• Payments without a valid account will be temporarily withheld, with all accrued amounts paid retroactively once a SEPA connection is reported.
• Pensioners without an account can open an EU Basiskonto or designate a trusted person’s EU/SEPA account to receive transfers.
• Bank details must be submitted using the Rentenservice form "Antrag auf unbare Zahlung einer Rente" and mailed to Deutsche Post AG, Niederlassung Renten Service, 13497 Berlin.