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Write to the German pension service. Same address where your father sent his life certificates. Maybe your mother has to go to the German embassy or a German consulate for verifying her identity.

Here's what she needs : https://www.germany.info/us-en/service/07-Pension/pension-death-benificiary/962726

Then Westerners should exercise more in their home countries. Many do here in Thailand anyway. Not on barstools though.

Edit : I mean "comorbidities"

Guess the comorbibidities make a difference. If someone in the West suffers from CoviD-19 or flu, then his or her death would probably counted as CoviD-19 death. While in warm Thailand it is easier to discrimate, and Thai folks don't run to a doctor for every cough.

Yes, possible. Just a question of organization. Bangkok Hospital Pattaya vaccinated elderly people in Central Festival throughout last week, in two-hourly batches (as confirmed by SMS), and they had certainly more than 6 doctors/nurses there. Younger locals like my fiancé went to local vaccination camps on the Dark Side of Pattaya before. So we are all vaccinated now.

Not only in Thailand.

Sorry, I didn't read this in the headlines.

Sorry to say but the PDF you get when you google "Einkommensbescheinigung fuer Rentner in Deutschland" clearly states Embassy (not consulate) No idea where the OP lives, but travelling to Bangkok is obviously quite inconvenient - and not mandatory if you have an adequate Thai Bankbook to proceed at immigration.

Maybe yes, maybe no. The German ambassador's name has changed at least two times since I'm in Thailand. But the fact that pension transfers are transfers of money between banks has not changed. Immigrations are only interested in how much money comes into Thailand and that it comes from abroad. Embassies are not banks, German Postbank (a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank) which are used by German Pension Service is a bank. And don't think that German Pension Service is identical with DRV-Bund in Berlin. I wouldn't even try to contact a German Embassy for an affidavit. I only went there once to apply for a new passport, but that's not the OP's theme.

No, I don't need an "Einkommensbescheinigung" from German Embassy, my Bangkok Bank Bankbook is enough to demonstrate my money comes from abroad. The bank transfer codes are CMB (for social security pensions) and FTT (for bank pensions)

I'm a German pensioner, too, and my pensions are transferred to a Thai Bank account. Everything is visible in my bank book (they have specified codes for money transfers there), and this is accepted by Chonburi immigration. No need to travel to Bangkok for 90 day-reports or extensions of stay. In doubt I would recommend you to contact a visa agency.

It's a start, and Farangs can use these domestic flights, too.