The court may freeze pension accounts. The people's court shall set aside necessary living expenses for retirees when executing the law. The standard of living expenses can be determined by referring to the relevant local standards. When the retiree is the person to be executed, the pension that he or she can receive undoubtedly belongs to the property of responsibility and can be used to pay off debts.
 Legal basis
 Article 249 of the Civil Procedure Law, if the person subjected to execution fails to perform the obligations specified in the legal document according to the execution notice, the people's court has the right to inquire the relevant units about the deposit, bonds, stocks, fund units and other property of the person subjected to execution. The people's court shall have the power to distrain, freeze, transfer and change the property of the person subjected to execution according to different circumstances. The property inquired, distrained, frozen, allocated and liquidated by the people's court shall not exceed the scope of the obligations that the person subjected to execution should perform. When the people's court decides to distrain, freeze, allocate or change the value of property, it shall make a ruling and issue a notice of assistance in execution, which must be handled by the relevant units.