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How to withdraw my pillar 3a for my retirement?

To pay out your 3a account for your retirement, we require a form filled out and sent to us.

Written by Marco Barmettler
Updated this week

You can withdraw the money in your pillar 3a account as early as 5 years before your retirement and as late as when you are 70 years old if you’re still working.

To process your pillar 3a withdrawal, our partner VZ requires a specific form.

Please follow these steps to pay out your 3a account for your retirement:

  1. Download this document (only available in German), fill it out, print it and sign it by hand.

  2. Add the mentioned attachment "official proof of marital status" (in German: amtlicher Zivilstandsnachweis) issued within 3 months of the current date. Please contact the “Zivilstandsamt” to get this document.

  3. Send the documents (the form needs to be original, the proof of marital status can be a copy) to the following address:

    VZ Vorsorgestiftung 3a

    Stiftungsadministration / TAS

    Gotthardstrasse 6

    8002 Zürich

As soon as VZ has received the documents, you will receive a confirmation from us.


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