V0410 Fragebogen für Anrechnungszeiten: Credited Periods

What is V0410 — Fragebogen für Anrechnungszeiten?

Your German pension doesn't only count the months you paid contributions. Certain gaps count too. These are credited periods (Anrechnungszeiten), such as time off sick, maternity protection, registered unemployment, school and university after your 17th birthday, or looking for an apprenticeship. They only help if they are in your insurance record (Versicherungsverlauf). Form V0410 is how you report the ones that are missing, usually together with V0100, the application to clarify your account.

The questionnaire goes topic by topic, and each question is a yes or no. A yes asks for the period, day, month and year from and to, plus the office involved: the health insurance fund that paid sickness benefit, the employment agency you were registered with, the school or university and your final qualification, who paid for a training measure, the insurer of an earlier pension. The DRV's explanatory notes (V0411) explain which evidence fits each question and when a period counts at all.

FileIt explains every question in English with the German wording alongside, shows the follow-up questions only when the form needs them, and prints your answers onto the official PDF, dates in the form's day-month-year boxes and names and places with Polish or Romanian letters intact, before saving it in your vault. You sign it by hand and send it with your evidence.

Who fills it: The insured person whose pension record is missing credited periods
Given to: Deutsche Rentenversicherung, usually with V0100 or a pension application
Length: 6 pages
Signatures: The applicant's handwritten signature, with place and date
Edition: V0410-00, Version 37015

Who needs to fill out V0410 — Fragebogen für Anrechnungszeiten?

Anyone whose Versicherungsverlauf is missing periods of illness, rehabilitation, maternity protection or unemployment.
People who studied or went to school after 17, including abroad, and want those years recorded.
Applicants who answered yes to the credited-periods question on V0100 (Kontenklärung).
Older insured people with bad-weather pay before 1979, an earlier pension that has ended, or custody abroad under the Prisoners' Assistance Act (HHG).

When to use V0410 — Fragebogen für Anrechnungszeiten

When the Deutsche Rentenversicherung sends it to you, or V0100 tells you to enclose it.
When you check your Versicherungsverlauf and find credited periods missing.
Well before you apply for a pension, since gathering school certificates and old benefit statements takes time.

What you need before you start

Your insurance number, name, birth name, date of birth and address.
Exact from and to dates for each period, day, month and year.
Evidence: certificates from your health insurance fund, hospital or doctor, employers' certificates and birth certificates for maternity, employment agency statements, school and university certificates, pension notices.
The names and file numbers of the offices involved, and for unemployment the address of the agency you were registered with.
For part-time, evening or distance courses: whether they took more than 20 hours a week, and for distance learning, whether there were set timetables and progress checks.

What’s on V0410 — Fragebogen für Anrechnungszeiten

The 2026 edition has 6 pages. FileIt asks for it in 8 parts, and it is signed by Insured person (antragsteller/-in):

1 · About you (Angaben zur Person)Insured person (antragsteller/-in)
2.1 · Illness (Krankheit)Insured person (antragsteller/-in)
2.2–2.3 · Rehabilitation, illness aged 17 to 25 (Rehabilitation)Insured person (antragsteller/-in)
3 · Pregnancy and maternity protection (Schwangerschaft / Mutterschutz)Insured person (antragsteller/-in)
4 · Unemployment and Arbeitslosengeld II (Arbeitslosigkeit)Insured person (antragsteller/-in)
5 · Education and training (Ausbildung)Insured person (antragsteller/-in)
6–9 · Training search, bad-weather pay, pension, custody abroadInsured person (antragsteller/-in)
10–11 · Declaration and enclosures (Erklärung, Anlagen)Insured person (antragsteller/-in)

How to fill out V0410 — Fragebogen für Anrechnungszeiten, step by step

1 1 · Angaben zur Person

Insurance number, name, first name and birth name in one box, date of birth, address and phone.

2 2 · Krankheit / Rehabilitation

2.1 time unable to work because of illness, and 2.1.1 benefits such as Krankengeld paid from 1984. 2.2 medical rehabilitation or support for working life, with the payer, and 2.2.1 benefits paid then. 2.3 illness of at least a month between 17 and 25.

3 3 · Schwangerschaft / Mutterschutz

Periods of pregnancy and maternity within the statutory protection periods, two lines.

4 4 · Arbeitslosigkeit

4.1 registered unemployment with the agency, the kind of benefit, and whether evidence is enclosed, no longer exists or will follow. 4.1.1 contributions the agency paid to another scheme. 4.2 Arbeitslosengeld II after 2010.

5 5 · Ausbildung

5.1 school, technical school and university after 17, including abroad, with the kind of education and the final qualification. 5.2 part-time, evening or distance courses, with weekly hours. 5.3 pre-vocational training measures, with the payer and support received.

6 6–9 · Other periods

Registered as looking for an apprenticeship after 17, bad-weather pay up to 1978, a pension from your own insurance that has since ended, and custody abroad under the HHG from 1992.

7 10–11 · Erklärung und Anlagen

Sign the declaration. The form warns that knowingly false answers can lead to prosecution. Then list the evidence you enclose.

Common mistakes to avoid

Giving only years. The form and V0411 ask for day, month and year.
Sending no evidence. Every section says 'Beweismittel bitte beifügen'.
Reporting illness or unemployment after 25 for which you already received an insured benefit such as Krankengeld or Arbeitslosengeld. V0411 says those don't count again.
Leaving out education abroad. Question 5.1 covers it.
Sending stapled originals. V0411 asks for unstapled photocopies unless originals are requested.

After you fill it out

Print the questionnaire, check it, and sign page 6 by hand. Add photocopies of your evidence and list them under 11.

Send it to the Deutsche Rentenversicherung, with V0100 if you are clarifying your account. Your insurance number is on every page. FileIt doesn't send it for you.

The DRV checks the periods and sends you an updated Versicherungsverlauf or a decision. Keep the questionnaire and the reply in your FileIt vault.

Fill out V0410 — Fragebogen für Anrechnungszeiten online with FileIt

Pick the person. Choose someone from People and FileIt fills in their name, date of birth, address and other details it already knows.
Answer plain-language questions. One part of the form at a time, with the official help text beside each question — 122 fields in all. Your answers save as you go.
Check the live preview. Watch your answers land on the real Deutsche Rentenversicherung form, and let FileIt do any worksheet arithmetic.
Generate the official PDF. FileIt prints your answers into the agency’s own PDF and files it in that person’s folder in your vault. Sign it, or send it for e-signature.

FileIt fills the form — it never files or submits anything for you. Deliver the finished form to whoever asked for it, the way the form’s instructions say.

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V0410 — Fragebogen für Anrechnungszeiten: frequently asked questions

What are Anrechnungszeiten?

Credited periods: times without contributions that still count in your German pension record, such as illness, maternity protection, unemployment or education after 17.

Can I fill out V0410 online?

Yes. FileIt guides you through V0410 in English and fills the official PDF, which you print, sign and post with your evidence.

Do I need V0100 as well?

Often. V0100 is the application to clarify your account, and it tells you to enclose V0410 for credited periods. The DRV may also send V0410 on its own.

Does time at university abroad count?

Question 5.1 explicitly includes education abroad after your 17th birthday. Send the certificates showing start, end and any breaks.

What if my old evidence no longer exists?

For unemployment the form has a box for 'liegen nicht mehr vor' (no longer exist). Give the dates as precisely as you can. The DRV decides what it can recognise.

Where are the explanatory notes?

In Vordruck V0411, Erläuterungen zum Fragebogen für Anrechnungszeiten, from the Deutsche Rentenversicherung.

Official sources

Blank form (PDF), published by Deutsche Rentenversicherung: https://www.deutsche-rentenversicherung.de/SharedDocs/Formulare/DE/_pdf/V0410.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
Official instructions and guidance: https://www.deutsche-rentenversicherung.de/SharedDocs/Formulare/DE/_pdf/V0411.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
Edition shown on this page: V0410-00, Version 37015 (PDF of 22.07.2026) (checked 2026-10-19).

FileIt is not affiliated with or endorsed by Deutsche Rentenversicherung or any government. This page explains the form in general terms and is not legal, tax or immigration advice. Always read the official instructions, and check that you are using the edition the recipient accepts. Page last reviewed 2026-10-19.