Field help: (2018) pension adjustment amount included therein

Enter the pension adjustment amount by which the annual pension was adjusted compared to the year after the retirement start date.

It is not clear for many pensioners that every pension increase is 100% taxable. The pension adjustment amount is the sum of all pension increases beginning with the third pension year (from 2006 at the earliest). An Example: If you retired in 2008, the total annual pension was 12.500 Euro and in the current tax year 14.200 Euro. The difference between 14.200 Euro and 12.500 Euro is then the pension adjustment amount of 1.700 Euro, which must be stated in 2018.

Unfortunately, the pension adjustment amount is currently not shown separately in the pension notification. It means that you will receive the information only upon request.