In 2024, the House of Representatives approved the new pension choice known as ‘lump sum’. The Senate recently indicated that it would only consider this proposal once the new minister had announced a clear start date.

Following the expiry of the current term of office of one member of the Accountability Council representing pensioners and one member of the Accountability Council representing active members, two vacancies have arisen within the Accountability Council of Mars Pension Fund.

Following the expiration of the current term of two board members representing active members, two vacancies for board positions will arise within the board of Mars Pension Fund.

Every month, you receive your pension from Mars Pension Fund on or around the 1st day of the month. Starting in July 2026, we will change the payment date for your pension to the 20th of each month. This change does not mean that you will miss a payment, but that you will receive it later in the same month.

Good news! As of January 1, 2021, we are increasing the pensions for retired members and former members by 0.34%.

Around the summer of 2019, the Cabinet and the social partners concluded an outline pension agreement. They then continued to negotiate for another year on the details of that agreement. But on Friday, June 12, 2020, the cabinet and social partners agreed on this as well.

Would you like to know all about the (financial) developments of the Mars Pension Fund? Then read the annual report 2019. The board has approved this annual report for 2019. You can find all other annual reports on the downloads page.

Since 2014, Ad van Gestel sits on the Accountability Council (VO) of the Mars Pension Fund. He sits in the VO as a representative of the pensioners. We informed you by letter at the end of April that Ad has made himself available for another term of four years.

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Retroactive to January 2020, Mars Pension Fund will charge members in the Associate Selection Plan (ASP) a periodic administration fee. This is necessary because asset manager Vanguard no longer discounts administration fees. On the other hand, the investment costs have gone down. Vanguard invests the pension pot of the ASP plan.