Mauritius Basic Retirement Pension (BRP)

Mauritius Basic Retirement Pension (BRP): Current Eligibility and Application Guide

The Basic Retirement Pension (BRP) is a basic pension administered by the Social Security Division of Mauritius’s Ministry of Social Integration, Social Security and National Solidarity. It is one of the basic pensions provided under the National Pensions Act. The ministry’s current BRP page does not present this as a competitive grant or a short application round. Instead, it directs people to register at the Social Security Office nearest to their locality when they meet the applicable pension-age and residence conditions. For that reason, this opportunity uses a rolling deadline: there is no published closing date for a person who becomes eligible.

The word “rolling” does not mean that everyone aged 60 can automatically claim on the same day. Mauritius is phasing in a higher pension age for people born from September 1965 onward. The correct age depends on the claimant’s month and year of birth and the Tenth Schedule of the National Pensions Act. Someone considering a claim should check that schedule, rather than relying on older descriptions of the BRP as a universal payment beginning at age 60 for every person.

Current payment amounts

The official ministry page states that the amounts payable from January 2026 are:

The ministry uses “Rs” on its page; this guide writes the same Mauritian rupee amounts as “MUR” for clarity. The three bands are age-based payment rates. Reaching a higher band changes the applicable monthly rate under the published schedule; the applicant does not apply for a separate competition or a new annual cohort.

Older versions of this page quoted lower rates. Those figures are no longer current. The National Pensions Act’s current Second Schedule records MUR 15,555, MUR 23,550, and MUR 28,735, with the amendment taking effect from 1 January 2026. No extra payment is included in the confirmed amounts above because the current ministry BRP page does not list one.

Who can qualify

The official eligibility wording has four important parts: applicable pension age, residence in Mauritius, the special residence rules for citizens and non-citizens, and exclusion from a subsidised charitable or penal institution.

First, the claimant must have reached the pension age that applies to their birth month and year. For people born before September 1965, the ministry page describes the BRP as payable from age 60, subject to the other conditions. For people born from September 1965 onward, the statutory age is being phased in. The current Tenth Schedule gives the following progression:

• People born from September 1965 through August 1966 reach pension age at 61, in the corresponding months from September 2026 through August 2027.
• People born from September 1966 through August 1967 reach pension age at 62, in the corresponding months from September 2028 through August 2029.
• People born from September 1967 through August 1968 reach pension age at 63, in the corresponding months from September 2030 through August 2031.
• People born from September 1968 through August 1969 reach pension age at 64, in the corresponding months from September 2032 through August 2033.
• People born in September 1969 or later reach pension age at 65, beginning in September 2034 according to the schedule.

This change follows the amendment to the National Pensions Act that took effect on 1 September 2025. The ministry’s BRP page refers applicants to the Tenth Schedule, so a claimant should use the month-specific statutory table when deciding whether it is time to register.

Second, the person must be residing in Mauritius and must not be an inmate in a subsidised charitable or penal institution. Residence is not a minor administrative detail. For a citizen under 70, the ministry says the person must have resided in Mauritius for an aggregate period of 12 years since attaining age 18. That is an aggregate test, so the published rule is not phrased as twelve uninterrupted years immediately before the claim. The ministry also says that this residence qualification does not apply to citizens aged 70 and above.

Third, non-citizens are not automatically excluded. The current rule published by the ministry requires a non-citizen to have resided in Mauritius for at least 15 years in aggregate since attaining age 40, with three of those fifteen years immediately before the claim. This is a material correction to older descriptions that called the BRP a payment for Mauritian citizens only. A non-citizen who appears to meet the residence rule should take the relevant identity and passport records to the Social Security Office for an official determination.

The ministry page does not list an income test, an asset test, an employment-history test, or a contribution threshold among the BRP conditions it publishes. That is why the benefit is commonly described as a basic or non-contributory pension. It does not remove the age, residence, document, or institution conditions above, and it should not be read as a guarantee for a person whose records have not been checked by the Social Security Division.

Documents to prepare

The ministry asks applicants to produce documents in original format together with photocopies. The published list is specific:

1. Birth certificate. This supports the date-of-birth check used to establish the applicable pension age and payment band.
2. National identity card. Bring the original and a copy. The card is part of the ministry’s standard BRP document list.
3. Marriage certificate for married women. This is listed as an applicable document, so a married woman should include it rather than assume that the identity card alone will be sufficient.
4. Bank name and bank account number. The ministry asks for these payment details. If the account is joint, the national identity card or cards of the joint account holder or holders must also be produced.
5. Passports, both Mauritian and foreign. The ministry’s wording asks for both where applicable. A person with more than one relevant passport should bring the records that establish their identity, nationality, and travel history.

The official list does not say that a separate income statement, employment record, or contribution history is required for the BRP claim. It also does not promise a fixed processing time on the page. Applicants should therefore avoid paying anyone who claims to be able to bypass the office review or guarantee an approval date.

How to apply

The current application instruction is short: register the application at the Social Security Office nearest to the applicant’s locality. A practical application sequence is:

1. Check the month and year of birth against the pension-age rule. If the claimant was born from September 1965 onward, use the Tenth Schedule rather than assuming the age is 60.
2. Check residence eligibility. Citizens under 70 should be ready to establish the required aggregate residence since age 18. Non-citizens should be ready to establish the aggregate residence since age 40 and the three years immediately before the claim.
3. Assemble original documents and photocopies. Include bank details and the extra joint-account identity documents when relevant.
4. Visit the Social Security Office nearest to the claimant’s locality and register the application. The official BRP page does not describe a separate online application route or a grant-style deadline.
5. Follow any request from the Social Security Office for clarification or additional records. The office is the appropriate place to resolve questions about the pension-age transition, residence calculations, identity documents, and the date from which payment can be made.

The official page directs applicants to contact the Social Security Office nearest to their place of residence for contact details. This is more reliable than using an old office address copied from a third-party benefits page, especially where a claimant lives on an island or in a locality whose administrative arrangements have changed.

What this page does and does not promise

The BRP is a continuing statutory benefit, not a fellowship, prize, or one-time cash award. A person does not compete with other applicants for a fixed pot described on the ministry page. The relevant questions are whether the claimant has reached the applicable pension age, satisfies the residence rule, is not within the stated institution exclusion, and can document the claim.

The monthly amount is also not one single universal figure. A claimant aged 60 to 89 falls in the first published band only when the person is legally entitled to claim at the applicable pension age. The higher amounts for ages 90 to 99 and 100 and above are separate age bands in the official schedule. The page should therefore be read with the claimant’s date of birth and current age together.

Finally, “rolling” describes access timing, not a promise that the rules will never change. The government can amend pension rates or the qualifying age through legislation and regulations. This record is updated to the official rates and rules visible at review and links directly to the ministry’s BRP page. Before registering, applicants should confirm the latest wording with the Social Security Office nearest to them and bring the originals and copies listed by the ministry.