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“I realize that it is something like a headline because many people, seeing that headline, were afraid to think that it was referring to a drastic extension of the retirement age.
“It’s a question of extending the working age, and I don’t think there is a need to be intimidated by this, or to be very attached to that number, just to separate the two, and that it is not about retirement,” he said. Knowledge Radio said Wednesday.
According to V. Čmilytė-Nielsen, there is currently no discussion in the Seimas about raising the retirement age.
Economists say this is inevitable
DELFI recalls that the European Commission proposes that Lithuania create the conditions for Lithuanians to work until the age of 72 in the future. And only then would he withdraw. Today the average Lithuanian does not even live that long.
Governors say there are no plans to delay retirement. However, economists have long said that this will be inevitable and that the problems will only deepen, so the government is urged not to make empty promises, as if the return of emigrants increases the birth rate.
Algirdas, 71, was able to retire 7 years ago, but is still working.
“I work part time, for my own pleasure. I definitely couldn’t work, but it’s interesting to work on a Lithuanian cattle ranch, ”the man told LNK News.
There are not many pensioners who work and especially men in Lithuania, like Algirdas. Many Lithuanian men do not reach Algirdas’s age at all.
The average life expectancy of all men is 71 years.
“610 thousand retirees have to admit that a little more than 2/3 of retirees are women, because they live longer,” Inga Buškutė, representative of the Ministry of Social Security and Labor, told LNK News.
Currently, the retirement age for men is 64 years and 2 months, for women 63 years and 4 months. The retirement age is increased annually, by 2026 it should reach 65 years.
But polls show that Lithuanians would like to retire and enjoy old age at least 10 earlier.
“I think that if a job is not nice and it is only because of the income, it is automatically less motivating for a person to continue with that job,” said the Vilnius woman.
Another passerby said that the men should retire 10 years earlier because they live less.
But in the future, the work may take longer and much longer. The European Commission recommends that Lithuania ensure that after 20 years, Lithuanians will be able to work for up to 72 years. So far this is just a recommendation, but it has long been said that the retirement age will only increase in the future.
“It sounds a bit shocking, considering that according to surveys, people would like to work at least a decade less, based on current attitudes and moods. For some time now, our retirement age has been higher than people would like to be able to work, ”said Mindaugas Lingė, chairman of the Seimas Social Affairs Committee and a conservative.
Gražina from Vilnius has been driving the trolley for a long time.
“If I’ve worked for 27 years, then I like it,” he said. The woman said she has colleagues who are in their 70s and still working.
The main reason for the increase in the working age is the growing number of retirees in Europe and the lack of people of working age. And in Lithuania the situation is extremely bad due to emigration.
“About now, the tipping point begins, when the impact turns negative and we are already beginning to feel the decline in the workforce that comes from demographic trends: long-term emigration. Many young people went through it, ”said Kotryna Tamoševičienė, Head of the Department of the Bank of Lithuania.
And the health of Lithuanians is one of the worst in Europe.
A member of the Seimas, the social democrat Algirdas Sysas is surprised that when the European Commission proposes to create conditions for people to work as long as possible, Lithuania has adopted bans for retirees to work. For example, some retirees can no longer work in some budget institutions.
“We just realized that we were 65 years old. But some people still have the strength, the desire to be able to work,” said A. Sys.
All Lithuanian governments promise to return migrants and encourage families to have more children. But the economist K. Tamoševičienė says it is like a utopia.
“It seems that increasing birth rates is not the way to go. In a modern society, the birth rate is only decreasing. It would be difficult to imagine it turning in such a way as to correct the situation in the labor market,” he said. .
Economists have long said that there will be two main ways to ensure that enough taxes are collected in Lithuania to pay for pensions: raising the retirement age and helping older people to constantly improve their knowledge, and admitting more migrants from abroad. .
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