pre retirement benefits

Pre retirement benefits

early retirement (chapter IV),

I read recently the Belgian presidency's proposals for action.

Had reached compulsory retirement age

Subject Community policy on retirement age

We are not interfering with the statutory pensionable age.

The second is the retirement age.

Mr Besse (S). (FR) If one limits oneself to the economic aspect, there are two positive points the rates of exchange and the prospect of a fall in interest rates.

Look, Callahan, you're past the retiring age.

As far as early retirement is concerned, we must ensure that the retirement age can be brought up to the statutory retirement age in all countries.

Subject Equal pensionable ages for men and women

Question No 7 by Mr McMahon Flexible retirement age

Of these 400 who live in Sesimbra, 150 are already over 55 years old, which means they can be moved into early retirement, since at this age it is difficult to retrain them for a different job.

Therefore we welcome with open arms the fact that early retirement arrangements have been put in place as part of the reform process.

There is unlikely to be a pension or a retirement age in 2030.

16 March 1989, therefore, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on

Without doubt, the question of life expectancy has repercussions on the actual retirement age as well as on the statutory retirement age in many countries.

The proposal for the Statute, however, provides for us to have a retirement age of 60, which is low indeed.

Five political priorities have been identified enlargement and preparation for enlargement, external assistance, internal security, reform of the institutions and reform of the Commission.

Arrangements relating to retirement age fall within the competence of individual Member States.

One very effective way of achieving this would be to raise the effective retirement age.

First, the question of increasing the actual retirement age.

Age at which person started to receive an individual retirement pension

Additional insurance periods, early retirement pension (Article 5a, Royal Decree No 50).

In August 1989 the Commission submitted a proposal for a Council regulation on the Statute for a European Company and simultaneously submitted a proposal complementing the latter with regard to the involvement of employees in the European company (COM (89) 268).

Question No 21 by Mr McMahon (H 0514 93)

Taking discussions at national level on pensions into account, we are raising the pensionable age by three years.

be not less than 55 years old but not yet of normal retirement age or not more than 10 years younger than the normal retirement age in the Member State concerned

In the majority of the Member States, the formal pensionable age is approximately 65 while the actual pensionable age is very much lower.

Answer The Commission has no proposals to harmonize the retirement age across the Community.

However, this presupposes that people will manage to keep working up to the raised retirement age.

Given these circumstances, it is more obvious to lower, rather than increase, the pensionable age.

as of the age of 55 during the last five years before retirement.

Preterm infants born after at least 24 weeks of gestational age

The acquired rights of staff under the frozen retirement plan were preserved , and some structural elements of the plan , such as the normal ECB retirement age of 65 and the possibility of early retirement , were maintained in the new pension scheme .

I think my section reflects a general consensus within the committee and I hope we can approve it without too much amendment.

Finally, the pensionable age for Members of the European Parliament is to be raised from 60 to 63 years.

The second question concerns the effective retirement age and the role of non discrimination.

Nor do I think it right that we have not substantially raised the pensionable age.

a widower who immediately before pensionable age is not entitled to widowed parent's allowance, or

A second problem highlighted by Mr Andersson, and one that we really have to redouble our efforts to tackle, is the need to raise the effective retirement age, not the statutory retirement age.

Of course there are differences between Member States in terms of the structure of pension schemes, contributions and pensionable ages.

In fact, this shortage is being seized upon as an argument for increasing the pensionable age and for nipping in the bud such initiatives as there have been to lower it.

Subject Danish early retirement pension scheme Will the Commission state whether the Danish early retirement pension scheme has been approved in its entirety and whether there are disagreements between Denmark and the Commission in other areas of social policy?