Pensions
This page provides information about government occupational pensions, partial pensions, flexible pensions, sickness pensions and emeriti.
Content on this page:
- The right to remain in employment
- Occupational pension
- Partial retirement for those born in 1965 or earlier
- Flexible retirement options for those born in 1966 or later
- Sickness pension
- Retired professors (professor emeritus/emerita)
The right to remain in employment
If you are an employee, you can continue working at Lund University until you reach the age of 69.
Occupational pension
The National Government Employee Pensions Board (SPV).administers and pays out your occupational pension. SPV will guide you through the process leading up to your retirement and help you prepare a pension forecast. SPV will also assist you with applying for your pension.
- Read more about your government employee pension (the National Government Employee Pensions Board, SPV)
- The Pensions agreement for government employees PA03 (in Swedish, Swedish Agency for Government Employers)
- Go to the web portal minpension.se for an overview of your pension (on Swedish)
For further information, contact SPV's Customer Service:
- Telephone number: 020-51 50 40
- Email: kundservice [at] spv [dot] se
Apply for your pension in good time
You are responsible for applying for your pension in good time, so that there is no gap between your final salary payment and your first pension payment. SPV needs your application no later than three months before your pension is due to start being paid out.
- Apply in Primula to terminate your employment due to retirement.
Log in to Primula - Submit your application for an occupational pension to the National Government Employee Pensions Board (SPV), following their instructions.
Partial retirement for those born in 1965 or earlier
Reduce your working hours before retirement.
You can apply for up to 20 per cent partial retirement from the age of 63 until the month before you turn 65.
The partial retirement benefit amounts to 60 per cent of the loss of income (if your fixed salary changes, the partial retirement benefit is recalculated accordingly).
Example: If your salary is SEK 30,000 and you reduce your working hours by 20 per cent, you will receive:
- Salary for hours worked: SEK 24,000
- Partial pension: SEK 3,600
- Total: SEK 27,600
Apply for partial pension 4–6 months in advance. Inform your employer of any secondary employment.
Complete the form ‘Application for leave for partial retirement’ and submit it to HR.
Download the form from the Staff forms and templates page
Submit the completed form to the HR Division:
Pensions
HR Division
Hämtställe 31
Lund University
Once you have received the decision from the university, you (or your department) must register the partial retirement in Primula and attach the decision to the case.
If you are receiving a guaranteed pension and have been granted partial retirement before 1 July 2023, you can apply to your employer for an extension of your partial retirement. An extension may apply at the latest until you turn 66.
Apply for an extension of a previously granted partial retirement 4–6 months in advance.
Attach proof that part of your state pension consists of a guaranteed pension which will not be paid out until you turn 66.
Complete the form ‘Application for leave for partial retirement’ and submit it to HR.
Download the form from the Staff forms and templates page
Send the completed form by internal post to the HR Division:
Pensions
HR Division
Hämtställe 31
Lund University
If you have any questions about guarantee pension, contact the Swedish Pensions Agency
Flexible retirement options for those born in 1966 or later
If you were born in 1966 or later, you can start drawing Kåpan Flex from the month you turn 63. Kåpan Flex is part of the PA 16 state occupational pension scheme, which all government employees are covered by and to which your employer makes monthly contributions.
You can use this part of your occupational pension, for example, to reduce your working hours before you retire. Leave may be granted by your employer, but you must continue to work at least 50 per cent of your normal hours after the leave has been granted.
- If you were born in 1966 or later, your employer pays the equivalent of 1.6 per cent of your salary into Kåpan Flex each month.
- If you were born before 1966 and have not taken, or do not have, a partial pension, your employer pays the equivalent of 0.6 per cent of your salary into Kåpan Flex each month.
Sickness pension
If you receive sickness benefit or activity allowance from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, you may be entitled to a disability pension. There are extended cover provisions which mean you may be entitled to a disability pension if you have left your government employment and are ill.
If you receive sickness benefit or activity allowance from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, you may be entitled to a disability pension. There are provisions for continued entitlement which mean you may be entitled to a disability pension if you have left your government job and are ill.
Standard sickness benefit does not entitle you to a disability pension.
The disability pension is approximately 15 per cent of your salary when receiving full sickness benefit.
SPV calculates and pays out the disability pension. For more information, contact SPV’s Customer Service.
Read more about disability pension (SPV)
SPV Customer Service
Apply for a disability pension
Apply for a disability pension by sending the Swedish Social Insurance Agency’s decision to the HR Divsion:
Pensions
HR Division
Hämtställe 31
Lund University
If you have any questions, please contact your nearest HR function within your department/faculty or equivalent.
Professor emeritus/emerita
As a retired professor, you may in certain cases continue your work without being employed.
As a retired professor, you may in certain cases continue your work without being employed.
- Submit a notification to your Head of Department no later than three months before retirement.
- The Head of Department will assess and approve any continued work. The terms and conditions are documented in a specific template.
- Download the template for the agreement on professor emeritus status from the Staff forms and templates page.
If you have any further questions regarding emeritus status, please contact your nearest HR department.
Contact
For general information on pensions, contact the National Government Employee Pensions Board (SPV) in the first instance.
If you cannot find what you are looking for on this webpage, you can ask the HR Division a question via the case management system, which is reached via the page Find the right HR information and support on the HR website.
Contact your line manager or the HR officer at your organisational unit if you have any questions concerning employment or your organisational unit’s procedures for HR/staff matters.
Related information
- Download Lund University regulations on the activities of retired professors (Rules and decisions).
- The Lund University guidlines for partial pension will shortly be available on the page Rules and decisions
- Your pension insurance (Kåpan) - for people who are or have been government employees
- Pension compensation in case of redundancy (transition agreement) (in Swedish, Swedish Agency for Government Employers)