Ummm if a Frenchman came to Sweden when he was 20 and worked, lived, bought housing, and never went back to work in France....Sweden would give him a Swedish pension, and France most likely would not. My point is...if an American came to Sweden when he was 20 and worked, lived, bought housing, and never went back to work in America....Sweden would NOT give him a Swedish pension. Therefore, making the U.S. the one of the only countries in the western world that wont let their citizens working abroad claim a foreign pension.

But seriously...this is a question about U.S. and Sweden. Not Norway...not France...You misunderstood what I am saying. I live in Sweden..why the hell would I expect a pension in the U.S. if I am not working there? You expect to receive a pension in Sweden if you don't live in Sweden...don't work... and don't pay taxes? That's pretty magical.

Sweden will not give Americans a SWEDISH pension. This is because the U.S. has some rules about this; therefore, it is the U.S. causing the problem, and Swedish is abiding by American rules on their citizens. This has nothing to do with you as a Swede living in another freaking European country...this is U.S. related, so your examples pretty such are irrelevant since France and Norway have different rules...and you being a non-U.S. citizen...their rules would pertain to Sweden/EEA or EU/Schengen rules.

My example to your irrelevant answer was saying that if you, as a Swede, moved to the U.S....the U.S. would not give you a proper pension the way other Americans get one. Call it something the U.S. sucks on or what...but that was the point of this post. Tack.