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As part of the Budget Accompaniment Law, the increase in pensions has now also been resolved by the Land Chamber. The opposition delayed the entry into force of the pension reform, including the new “hacker regulation”.
The budget support law, which in addition to the various aid from Covid and the new short-time job also includes the increase in pensions, cleared the stumbling block in the Federal Council this Thursday. Despite criticism of the content of the SPÖ, the law also received its approval, FPÖ and Neos voted against it. On the other hand, the pension reform, which was rejected by the SPÖ and FPÖ mainly because of the discounts in the “hacker regulation”, was delayed.
The SPÖ and FPÖ already prevented pension reform from being on the agenda of the Bundesrat plenary on Thursday. This law passed by the National Council provides for the introduction of an “early start bonus” as a replacement for the “hacker’s pension” free of deductions. The Social Democrats and the Freedom Party strictly reject an exit from the variant without discount.
The delay in the commission by the SPÖ and the FPÖ was possible, as this commission meeting was still held in the old composition, in which the red-blue had a majority for the last time. If the Federal Council does not receive treatment, there will be an eight-week delay before the law takes effect. The delayed entry into force will hardly have an impact at this point, as the measure will not take effect until 2022.
However, the ÖVP and Greens government factions submitted a request for a deadline on Thursday, which will be voted on in the evening at the end of the Federal Council meeting. With your help, the pension reform should come into effect before eight weeks. Because if the “who sets the term” obtains a majority, the pension reform would be included in the agenda of the next plenary session of the Federal Council. In any case, this will take place in December, so the law could still pass in the Federal Council and circumvent the eight-week deadline.
Neos says no to whoever sets the deadline
But it will not come to that, because whoever sets the deadline will not get the decisive vote of the only Federal Councilor of Neos, Karl-Arthur Arlamovsky, as the Neos said in the afternoon. In the National Council there was approval of the Pinkies for the pension reform, but they wanted an adequate treatment of the pension reform in the committee, for that reason the reason for the now not to the fixed term. Arlamovsky has been “tipping the balance” since Thursday due to the new composition of the Federal Council (due to the Vienna state elections): in the 61-seat Federal Council, the SPÖ and FPÖ now only have 30 seats and no longer They can legislate without their pink colleagues rejecting or appealing. The SPÖ and FPÖ will also give a final no to the deadline, the parliamentary groups said.
In addition to the governmental factions in the Federal Council, the SPÖ also voted in favor of the law accompanying the budget, including the increase in pensions, which was approved in the National Council resolution on November 17 with only votes from the ÖVP and the Greens, despite the criticisms previously expressed. On the part of the SPÖ it was said that they would now agree that the increase (too small from the SPÖ’s point of view) can be paid to pensioners on time. From the FPÖ they were told that no, they support a pension increase. In the accompanying law, however, there are so many other measures that are rejected, so that in total there is also a rejection of the Freedom Party in the Federal Council.
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