The general compulsory pension insurance scheme in Luxembourg for old age, invalidity and survivors covers all persons who:

• pursue a professional activity in Luxembourg, in return for remuneration, either on behalf of another person or on their own account; or
• can justify periods that are assimilated to such periods of professional activity.

This applies to the following persons and periods:

• employees;
• self-employed persons as well as, under certain conditions, partners and directors, general partners or agents of commercial companies;
• beneficiaries of a replacement income (REVIS, pension, etc.);
• members of religious associations and persons who can be assimilated to them, who act in the interest of the sick and of the general interest;
• apprentices over 15 years of age;
• spouses/helping partners as well as parents and relatives in the direct or collateral line up to and including the third degree of a self-employed person who is under the authority of the Chamber of Agriculture;
• beneficiaries of the "baby years";
• the periods where a person has been working, under certain conditions, in a developing country;
• the retroactive purchase of insurance periods;
• persons performing compulsory military service in the Luxembourg army;
• participants in a peacekeeping operation, subject to conditions;
• volunteers in the service of the army;
• persons who, in a non-professional capacity, provide aid and care to a dependent person;
• persons who take in a child following a placement by an approved organisation;
• persons performing voluntary service;
• parents on parental leave;
• workers with disabilities employed in sheltered workshops;
• persons with a high-level sporting activity;
• beneficiaries of the social inclusion benefit;
• beneficiaries of the allowance for the severely disabled.