This award letter is issued annually by the state or government agency detailing the pension benefits earned by an individual. Pension award letters are commonly used in the mortgage industry, especially for income verification.

To use the Upload PDF endpoint for this document, you must use PENSION_AWARD_LETTER in the form_type parameter.

To learn more about processing pension award letter form type, see Pension Award Letter processing.

Field descriptions

The following fields are available on this document type:

JSON Attribute	Data Type	Description
`pension_award_letter-General:issueDate`	Date	Issue Date
`pension_award_letter-General:benefitYear`	Integer	Benefit Year
`pension_award_letter-General:socialSecurityNumber`	Social Security Number	Social Security Number
`pension_award_letter-General:companyName`	Text	Issuing Company Name
`pension_award_letter-General:recipientName`	Text	Recipient Name
`pension_award_letter-General:address:addressLine1`	Text	Recipient Address
`pension_award_letter-General:address:addressLine2`	Text	Recipient Address
`pension_award_letter-General:address:city`	Text	Recipient Address
`pension_award_letter-General:address:state`	State	Recipient Address
`pension_award_letter-General:address:zip`	ZIP Code	Recipient Address
`pension_award_letter-General:currentBenefitAmount(Gross)`	Money	Current Monthly Benefit Amount (Gross)
`pension_award_letter-General:projectedAnnualIncome`	Money	Projected Annual Income
`pension_award_letter-General:benefitExpirationDate`	Date	Benefit Expiration Date
`pension_award_letter-General:isLifetimeBenefit?`	`YES`, `NO`	Is Lifetime Benefit?

Sample document

drive.google.com

PENSION_AWARD_LETTER.pdf

Sample JSON result

{
  "pk": 47309170,
  "uuid": "f8a203c4-7115-43e5-b689-8995704d9413",
  "name": "PENSION_AWARD_LETTER (API)",
  "created": "2024-03-08T20:50:33Z",
  "created_ts": "2024-03-08T20:50:33Z",
  "verified_pages_count": 1,
  "book_status": "ACTIVE",
  "id": 47309170,
  "forms": [
    {
      "pk": 53577146,
      "uuid": "22e403fc-512d-4200-a7e9-e94dfa7a2394",
      "uploaded_doc_pk": 68027948,
      "form_type": "PENSION_AWARD_LETTER",
      "raw_fields": {
        "pension_award_letter-General:issueDate": {
          "value": "04/19/2023",
          "is_empty": false,
          "alias_used": null,
          "source_filename": "PENSION_AWARD_LETTER.pdf",
          "confidence": 1.0
        },
        "pension_award_letter-General:address:zip": {
          "value": "12345",
          "is_empty": false,
          "alias_used": null,
          "source_filename": "PENSION_AWARD_LETTER.pdf",
          "confidence": 1.0
        },
        "pension_award_letter-General:benefitYear": {
          "value": "2023",
          "is_empty": false,
          "alias_used": null,
          "source_filename": "PENSION_AWARD_LETTER.pdf",
          "confidence": 1.0
        },
        "pension_award_letter-General:companyName": {
          "value": "SAMPLE STATE RETIREMENT SYSTEM",
          "is_empty": false,
          "alias_used": null,
          "source_filename": "PENSION_AWARD_LETTER.pdf",
          "confidence": 1.0
        },
        "pension_award_letter-General:address:city": {
          "value": "UNKNOWN CITY",
          "is_empty": false,
          "alias_used": null,
          "source_filename": "PENSION_AWARD_LETTER.pdf",
          "confidence": 1.0
        },
        "pension_award_letter-General:address:state": {
          "value": "CA",
          "is_empty": false,
          "alias_used": null,
          "source_filename": "PENSION_AWARD_LETTER.pdf",
          "confidence": 1.0
        },
        "pension_award_letter-General:recipientName": {
          "value": "DONNA FAKE",
          "is_empty": false,
          "alias_used": null,
          "source_filename": "PENSION_AWARD_LETTER.pdf",
          "confidence": 1.0
        },
        "pension_award_letter-General:isLifetimeBenefit?": {
          "value": "YES",
          "is_empty": false,
          "alias_used": null,
          "source_filename": "PENSION_AWARD_LETTER.pdf",
          "confidence": 1.0
        },
        "pension_award_letter-General:address:addressLine1": {
          "value": "FAKE UNKNOWN RD",
          "is_empty": false,
          "alias_used": null,
          "source_filename": "PENSION_AWARD_LETTER.pdf",
          "confidence": 1.0
        },
        "pension_award_letter-General:address:addressLine2": {
          "value": "FL 1",
          "is_empty": false,
          "alias_used": null,
          "source_filename": "PENSION_AWARD_LETTER.pdf",
          "confidence": 1.0
        },
        "pension_award_letter-General:socialSecurityNumber": {
          "value": "123-45-6789",
          "is_empty": false,
          "alias_used": null,
          "source_filename": "PENSION_AWARD_LETTER.pdf",
          "confidence": 1.0
        },
        "pension_award_letter-General:benefitExpirationDate": {
          "value": "",
          "is_empty": true,
          "alias_used": null,
          "source_filename": "PENSION_AWARD_LETTER.pdf",
          "confidence": 1.0
        },
        "pension_award_letter-General:projectedAnnualIncome": {
          "value": "9045.72",
          "is_empty": false,
          "alias_used": null,
          "source_filename": "PENSION_AWARD_LETTER.pdf",
          "confidence": 1.0
        },
        "pension_award_letter-General:currentBenefitAmount(Gross)": {
          "value": "753.81",
          "is_empty": false,
          "alias_used": null,
          "source_filename": "PENSION_AWARD_LETTER.pdf",
          "confidence": 1.0
        }
      },
      "form_config_pk": 331203,
      "tables": [],
      "attribute_data": null
    }
  ],
  "book_is_complete": true
}