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The club’s vice president, Gaby Schwarz, reported on an agreement with the Greens. However, this has not been confirmed at the Green Club. The spring line is still applied there, first to await the report of the old-age pension commission. The vice president should also link the unemployment benefit announced by the Greens to the pension reform.
Early retirement without deductions has been possible again since January 1, 2020 if there are at least 45 years of contributions. People insured by the ASVG, farmers and the self-employed can make use of this, but not officials. In practice, only men benefit from this, due to their higher standard retirement age.
“All male board”
The club’s vice president, Gaby Schwarz, described the regulation, which surprisingly was decided shortly before the 2019 National Council elections (and against the Neos’ votes), in a broadcast on Wednesday as a pure “men’s pension. “. This “unfair system” will now be redressed with the “necessary transition periods,” Schwarz announced. According to the vice president, this should be decided in November, with the pension increase for 2021.
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The Green Club, however, did not confirm the deal. A reform “has not yet been agreed,” it was said upon request. From the point of view of the Greens, it remains true that the report from the Old Age Insurance Commission will first be awaited and then there will be talk of more equality in the pension system.
The abolition of the “hacker regulation” is apparently not set for the Minister of Social Affairs Rudolf Anschober (Grne). At a press conference on Wednesday at lunchtime, the department head said he wanted to wait for a report from the Pension Commission. He had already established a clear procedure in this regard. The Commission should analyze the current figures for year one of the Expanded Regulation, i.e. 2020, and present a report in which more valid statements can be made. Then you will analyze the system as a whole, how to get more justice. Hacker regulation will only be part of this. That the vice president is in favor of abolition does not surprise the Minister of Social Affairs. This is the strict continuation of their policy.
SP, FP and union outraged
SP, FP and red trade unionists opposed the announced abolition. “Anyone who has worked hard for 45 years should be able to retire later without any discount,” demanded the deputy head of the SP. Jrg leichtfried on Wednesday with reference to high unemployment. On behalf of the FP, the regional head of Lower Austria, Udo Landbauer, announced a massive resistance.
Instead, the reform would be “gratifying and welcome” for them. Young industry. “Reintroducing the so-called ‘hackler regulation’ in the course of the 2019 election campaign was an incomprehensible and completely counterproductive populism with an eye to sustainability and intergenerational equity,” JI President Matthias Unger said in a broadcast. In any case, the costs of the pension system are too high. Due to Corona and high unemployment, asset prices would break. There is a threat of a “cost explosion”, so countermeasures must be taken.
The president of the production union PRO-GE reacted indignantly, Rainer wimmer. The SP unionist considers the argument made by the vice president that the hacker regulation does not apply to women is “frayed”: “In a few years the retirement age will be raised, then they will also benefit. And to facilitate access to women will be counted five years in the parenting periods. ” The vice president did not attack the multi-million dollar tax break for agribusinesses, instead he wanted to save employees who were often at the limit of their means, Wimmer criticized.
“Attack on service providers”
The president of the SP pensioners’ association, Peter Kostelka, also asked that the pension be withheld without deduction after 45 years of contributions. He also sees the protection of legitimate expectations at risk through reform.
The head of the Lower Austrian FP Landbauer sees an “attack on service providers” by the vice president: “I don’t know of any other party in this country that takes such an anti-employee approach.”
