social security abroad
Receiving U.S. Social Security From Abroad
Payment mechanics, residency reporting, and the questions a second country may ask are separate matters.
August 6, 2026 · 5 min read
U.S. Assets Across Borders
Your Life Crosses Borders. Your U.S. Assets Come With You.
Clear educational content about U.S. retirement accounts, investments, property, inheritance, and estate-planning questions for people living across borders.
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Clear educational content for people whose lives and U.S. assets cross borders.
U.S. Asset Planning is an independent educational publication and resource library. It explains which questions may need review. It does not provide individualized investment, tax, accounting, or legal advice.
Topic Hubs
U.S. asset topics that cross borders
Each hub gathers a pillar page, related articles, country content, and relevant guides.
Retirement Accounts
How 401(k)s, IRAs, and employer plans are held, accessed, and reported when the account owner lives outside the United States.
Brokerage Accounts
Custody, fund availability, reporting, and account maintenance questions for U.S. brokerage accounts held by people living abroad.
U.S. Real Estate
Owning, renting, selling, or inheriting U.S. property while living in another country, including titling and reporting questions.
Social Security Abroad
Claiming, receiving, and reporting U.S. Social Security benefits while living outside the United States.
U.S. Estate Tax
How the U.S. estate tax system applies to U.S.-situated assets, and why the analysis differs for U.S. and non-U.S. individuals.
Inherited U.S. Assets
What heirs and executors outside the United States encounter when a U.S. account, property, or business interest passes to them.
Beneficiaries and Estate Planning
Beneficiary designations, wills, trusts, and how U.S. documents interact with the inheritance rules of another country.
U.S. Assets Owned by Non-U.S. Individuals
Educational material for people who are not U.S. persons but hold U.S. property, accounts, or business interests.
Readership
Who this is for
01
Americans Living Abroad
U.S. accounts, property, and benefits continue after a move. The questions change shape rather than disappearing.
02
Non-U.S. Owners of U.S. Assets
People who are not U.S. persons but hold U.S. property, accounts, or business interests face a distinct set of U.S. procedures.
03
Cross-Border Families and Beneficiaries
Families spread across countries inherit U.S. accounts and property, and read one estate through two legal systems.
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stock compensation
Equity Compensation Across an International Move
Grant, vest, exercise, and sale can each fall in a different country. Records made at the time are the ones that help later.
July 28, 2026 · 7 min read
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Non-U.S. Owners of U.S. Property: What Gets Asked For
U.S. institutions request particular certifications from non-U.S. owners. Knowing which ones, and why, makes the process shorter.
July 9, 2026 · 6 min read
inherited us assets
What Executors Outside the United States Encounter
Inheritance across borders is an administrative sequence before it is anything else. Here is the shape of that sequence.
June 24, 2026 · 8 min read
Country Library
Content organized by country
Country hubs index U.S.-asset content for readers connected to a particular country. They are editorial libraries, not service territories.
Ireland
Ireland hosts a large population of Americans, dual citizens, and returning Irish nationals who continue to hold U.S. retirement accounts, brokerage accounts, and property. Many of the recurring questions concern how a U.S. account is maintained from an Irish address and how income inside it is described in two systems.
Open hubNetherlands
The Netherlands draws U.S.-connected professionals, employees with equity compensation, and families who later inherit U.S. accounts. Questions about stock compensation timing, account custody, and estate documentation come up frequently.
Open hubItaly
Italy is home to Americans who have relocated, dual citizens who have returned, and families inheriting U.S. property and accounts from relatives. Inheritance mechanics and estate documentation are among the most common reading topics.
Open hubBooks & Guides
Free guides, digital workbooks, and books
Free Guides
PDF Guide
U.S. Asset Planning Starter Guide
An orientation to the categories of U.S. assets that raise cross-border questions, and the order in which people usually review them.
FreeDownload
Checklist
U.S. Assets Abroad Checklist
A structured checklist of the account, document, and access questions to review before and after an international move.
FreeDownload
Worksheet
U.S. Asset Inventory Worksheet
A worksheet for recording U.S. accounts, property, entities, and beneficiary designations in one place before a professional review.
FreeDownload
Digital Workbooks
Digital Workbook
U.S. Retirement Accounts Abroad: Planning Organizer
A working organizer for documenting retirement account custody, access, distributions, and beneficiary details across two countries.
Price to be announcedComing soon
Digital Workbook
Inheriting U.S. Assets From Outside the United States
A guide to the administrative sequence heirs and executors outside the United States commonly encounter.
Price to be announcedComing soon
Digital Workbook
U.S. Asset Planning for Non-U.S. Individuals
Educational material for people who are not U.S. persons but hold U.S. property, accounts, or business interests.
Price to be announcedComing soon
Books
Book
U.S. Assets, Global Life
A book-length treatment of the questions that arise when a person's life and their U.S. assets are in different countries.
Price to be announcedComing soon
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