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To do this, an “early start bonus” was introduced, with which one euro is added to the pension for each month of work before 20. The reform is controversial.
The National Council approved the pension reform with a coalition majority. This means that starting in 2022 discounts (of 4.2 percent) will be applied to the “regulation of hackers”, which can still be started after 45 years of insurance from 62 years. The pension is increased (maximum 60). The prerequisite is that you have worked for 12 months and a total of 25 years before turning 20.
Eventually, the pension adjustment will be delayed. The full increase in the first year after retirement is only paid to those who retired in January. After that, the adaptation fades. Retirees who retired in February will receive 90 percent of the increase, March retirees 80 percent, and so on. Those who retire in November or December have to wait until the following year to get a raise.
It is also included in the amendment that accident insurance at the central office will remain valid until at least the end of March.
Criticisms of the opposition
This was preceded by an emotional debate in the National Council. SP’s social spokesperson Josef Muchitsch accused the coalition: “They show their true antisocial face.” His liberal colleague Dagmar Belakowitsch called the bill “unfair, unfair and antisocial.”
For Muchitsch, the government is now making those who work hard and for a long time pay for the crisis. All future retirees would have to bear losses as a result of today’s law change. The coalition asked the unionist why the workers were being punished. They were the ones who paid the most to the pension system, worked the longest and received the lowest federal subsidy.
Belakovich struck the same note: “All pensions will be cut. It has nothing to do with justice.” For those who have worked for many years, some of what they have earned is taken away. The early start bonus does not represent any compensation for the liberal social spokesperson. The Greens would have been fooled by the “social cut party” ÖVP.
Neos welcomes reform
Neos social spokesperson Gerald Loacker has no problem with the fact that the “hacker regulation” no longer applies without deduction. The pre-election decision with the abolition of deductions was a bungling anyway, as not even officials were involved. Since the SPÖ one day also decided on the rule with discounts, Loacker now sees a double game that is exposed and heavenly sad. The Neos also criticize the “early start bonus.”
The coalition thoroughly defended itself against the red-blue attacks. ÖAAB Secretary General Christoph Zarits said in the direction of the SPÖ. When she was there for the same decision, it was pipifein, now that she was gone, it was the devil’s work. As the Social Democrats had decided on the “hacker regulation” (with discounts), they continued to support the state: “Today you are a populist party.”
It will be “not abolished”, but “converted”
Like Zarits, the Greens’ social spokesman Markus Koza emphasized that the “regulation of hackers” would not be abolished, but would simply be changed to the way it had already existed this year, a regulation that had been decided by a social democratic minister of social affairs with the participation of the union. The government is creating something new with the “early start bonus”, from which 60,000 to 70,000 newcomers to the pension can benefit each year, while with the “piracy rule” it is only 7,000 to 8,000.
Social minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) had a similar line of argument. In fact, 45 years is enough. Therefore, it is correct and important that the long-term insurance policy is maintained. Just go back to the old compromise solution that the SPÖ and the ÖVP would have decided in government. In any event, he had set out to fight poverty in old age and this benefited from the recently decided sharp increase in the compensation allowance, as well as the “early start bonus”.
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