Understanding the recent pension reforms
On 24 August 2021, the government approved an initial pension reform that will bring some changes to retirement for all workers.
The sustainability of retirement pensions is a recurring and much-talked-about issue, and the Gobierno del Estado and its social agents have been working on reforming it for a long time, and have now approved the first package of measures.
In this initial block, the objectives are to guarantee the revaluation of pensions and the purchasing power of pensioners, as well as to lengthen the retirement age, providing incentives for workers to extend their working lives and penalising early retirement. We review the main measures that have been approved.
What are the main measures implemented?
- In order to guarantee their revaluation and the purchasing power of pensioners, pensions are linked to the CPI (Consumer Price Index) recorded in the previous year. Thus, they will be automatically increased from 1 January in line with inflation.
- Early retirements are penalised by increasing the reduction coefficients that calculate them. This reduction coefficient is increased, for example, from 16% to 21% for workers with less than 38 years and 6 months of contributions who wish to take early retirement by two years.
- Forced retirement clauses, which oblige workers to retire when they reach the legal retirement age, are eliminated and can only be maintained in agreements already signed and in activities where women represent less than 20% of the workforce.
- Incentives for workers who extend their retirement beyond the legal retirement age, consisting of a pension increase of 4% for each year of continued employment, an equivalent lump-sum payment, or a combination of the two options.
- Improving the financing system to ensure sustainability by establishing an annual transfer from the national budget to the social security system.
The second package of pending reforms
Thus, the short-term objective is to bring the retirement age in line with the real age, extending the working life of workers and, therefore, their years of contributions to the system. At the same time, the Gobierno del Estado is working on a labour reform that would provide greater stability, in which it would propose a reduction in temporary contracts, pursue subcontracting and recover collective agreements, among other measures to be applied.
Likewise, some other measures envisaged in the draft bill have been left out, such as the postponement of the retirement age to 67, the increase in the number of years of calculation that form the regulatory base of the pension, or the reform of maximum pensions. However, it is expected that the government will look into approving these measures in the future and possible new changes.
Do you want to be the first to receive the latest news about 11Onze? Click here to subscribe to our Telegram channel
If you liked this article, we recommend you read:
Finding a job after fifty
3 min readAccording to the Idescat, this June 2021 there were 445,862 unemployed people. Of these
👍
Gràcies per la informació
D’aqui no res ens haurem de jubilar als 70 i depen com s’arribi….si s’arriba no gaudirem gaire d’aquesta jubilació….
Les lleis poden canviar amb relativa rapidesa, igual que es desvien fons previstos per a pensions cap a la banca clàssica, igual que canviarien dràsticament amb un possible nou context polític. No obstant, s’ha d’estar assabentat de l’actual marc. Moltes gràcies.
totalment d´acord LLuís, ens veiem per la Plaça!
Doncs als que portem cotitzant durant mes de 48 anys i et jubiles, per força, un any abans no haurien d estar penalitzats. Si no hi ha diners que administrin millor els impostos que recapten.
La qüestió com bé dius, Esteve, és cosa de qui administra i de per què utilitza uns recursos que haurien de ser destinats per una cosa i s’han fet servir per unes altres.
Em sembla molt bé que el que vulgui treballar més i pugui ho faci, i encara em sembla més bé que es penalitzi els que es jubilin abans.
I els joves que es fotin.
Gràcies, Rosa Maria, una millora que encara molt camí per fer.
👍👍👍
🙏
Entenc que als que ja estem jubilats no ens afecta,es aixì
Només t’afecta la revalorització anual de la pensió que torna a estar lligada amb l’IPC, i s’elimina el límit de 0,25%
Gràcies per aquest interessant anàlisi i resum.
Pels que encara estem en actiu, caldrà seguir atens a aquest tema. S’especulen forces mes canvis en pocs anys.
Efectivament, i abans i tot.
Gracies per la Informació 👍☕️
💪💛
Bona informació
Gràcies Ricard 😀
Gràcies per aquesta informació
💛