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Basic pension: Social insurance system: No, closed in 2008: N/A Armenia: Social assistance: Social insurance system: Mandatory individual accounts: Voluntary pensions Australia: Social assistance: Mandatory occupational pension system: N/A: N/A Austria: No: Social insurance system: Occupational pensions: Private pensions Bahrain: No: Social ...
The Icelandic pension system requires a minimum of 3 years of residency in Iceland for entitlement to an old-age benefit. You can retire early at age 65 with a reduced benefit amount.
Universal pension (also referred to as "demogrant", "categorical pension" or "citizens pension") is a pension where the only criteria for receiving it is age and citizenship, resp. residence. Some countries are specifying these criteria further, like The Netherlands which requires 50 years of residency between ages of 15 and 65 for a full ...
Government pensions form a big part of retirement income for many people. Current retirees rely on those still in the workforce to contribute to the country's pension system, which funds their...
The Spanish pension system includes a wide variety of pensions including widow's pensions, contributory pensions, and non-contributory pensions. The widow's pension covers people who suffer the death of their spouse. Contributory pensions are transfers from the state that depend on the worker's previous contribution and vary according to the ...
One method of reforming the pension system is to increase the retirement age. Two exceptions are Australia and Canada, where the pension system is forecast to be solvent for the foreseeable future. [citation needed] In Canada, for instance, the annual payments were increased by some 70% in 1998 to achieve this. These two nations also have an ...
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For this reason many countries introduced guaranteed minimal pension to their systems. [2] While the reason why most countries introduce NDC pension reform is to improve financial sustainability of their old age retirement systems, [1] NDC pension systems are similar to PAYG systems with regards to the demographic pension crisis. They are ...