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You are entitled to a refund of your Social Insurance contributions

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toothpick
  11/21/2017 23:28 EST

After a year a half of back and forth with the Bermuda Dept. of Social Insurance they refunded the payments I made to the Social Insurance Fund when I work there as an ex-pat for three years.

If you are now 65 or older, and worked in Bermuda as an ex-pat and paid into the Social Insurance Fund, you can get this "gratuity" too.
http://www.gov.bm.knowledgebase.co/article/as-an-ex-pat-am-i-able-to-recieve-back-what-i-contributed-into-social-insurance-1131.html
The link to the form does not work. I wrote an e-mail and was sent a pension form.
Do not fill in the online form - it infers that you are looking for a pension, which you are not entitled to. This is what spun my process into a year and a half. The Ministry's Business process for this is underdeveloped, dots do not join....
Instead, apply via letter to the very helpful Joy Joell:
Joy B. A. Joell
Senior Benefits Processor
Ministry of Finance
Department of Social Insurance
30 Parliament Street, Hamilton HM 12
P. O. Box HM 1537, Hamilton HM FX
Email: [email protected]
Tel: (441) 295-5151 Ext. 1856 Fax: (441) 292-5267


Good luck!

darrylvh
  12/28/2018 13:27 EST

Were you able to claim only your contributions or could you claim the aggregate that both you and your employer paid on your behalf (as the employer pays 50%)

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XBDA
  12/31/2018 10:10 EST

This is a great post! Thank you for being so helpful to your fellow expats (and sorry to hear about all your troubles in getting your refund).

I hope some people can benefit from this. I doubt that there will be anything left for me to reclaim by the time I turn 65.

Chartrandx5
  3/7/2019 12:17 EST

Did you have to wait until you were 65? The email that you listed is not working, I assume they have left that position.

Any other help or anything else you know would be helpful as I am trying to get my pensions now.

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