Hi, sorry if this is the wrong forum - admin please move accordingly if not.  I just found out I can collect a lump sum payout of money I paid into Thai social security for working more than 12 months but less than 15 years.  How did I not know this?  🤔 I also have seen some AI and fuzzy type proclamations that this must be done within 2 years of reaching 55 and becoming unemployed?  For my example:  I quit my job 1.5 years ago, I'm 58 years old, I've worked over 12 months but less than 15 years.  Is there a time limit to claim my benefit?  Many thanks.  

I believe you have to have paid it for 180 months or 15 years to collect the lump sum payment. I paid in much longer than that and receive a monthly check. Good luck. Take a Thai speaker to your local social security office and see what they say. Its what I did. If you do this you lose all free medical benefits. 

Received about 60,000 baht lump sum from Thai SS after I left my job.  I believe I had to collect within a certain time frame or would have lost it, my employer reminded me. I was still eligible for the medical benefits if I would have paid the premiums. 

8 minutes ago, marin said:

I believe you have to have paid it for 180 months or 15 years to collect the lump sum payment. I paid in much longer than that and receive a monthly check. Good luck. Take a Thai speaker to your local social security office and see what they say. Its what I did. If you do this you lose all free medical benefits. 

Thanks for your reply.  I read about both the pension type ( 15 years working / monthly payment) and the lump sum for working more than 12 months but less than 15 years.  So if its under 15 years then nothing huh?  Gues that info is incorrect.  I didn''t know, just came across it today and was optimistic.

 

4 minutes ago, Real Name Hidden said:

Received about 60,000 baht lump sum from Thai SS after I left my job.  I believe I had to collect within a certain time frame or would have lost it, my employer reminded me. I was still eligible for the medical benefits if I would have paid the premiums. 

Thanks for your reply.  Do you remember how long the time frame was?  I've also read that the SSO is supposed to send out a notice.  I have not been contacted by anyone.  

11 minutes ago, michael888 said:

Thanks for your reply.  Do you remember how long the time frame was?  I've also read that the SSO is supposed to send out a notice.  I have not been contacted by anyone.  

I can't remember exactly, this was over a decade ago, but I think it may have been 3 or 6 months.  Social security never contacted me, but they may have contacted my employer.

35 minutes ago, Real Name Hidden said:

I can't remember exactly, this was over a decade ago, but I think it may have been 3 or 6 months.  Social security never contacted me, but they may have contacted my employer.

If you remember, how did you file and collect?  Didi you go to a SS office and fill out forms, then would they have wired it to your account?  

12 hours ago, michael888 said:

If you remember, how did you file and collect?  Didi you go to a SS office and fill out forms, then would they have wired it to your account?  

I visited the office and, as i recall, they paid in cash, which really surprised me.  It was not Bangkok but a regional city, I rode my motorcycle from Pattaya and it was well worth the trip.