International women’s day: Korosec for automatic pension Splitting

The senior citizens ‚ Association-President occurs also for an extension of the application deadline, and can imagine an extension to the nursing field, as you said the „press“.

Vienna (OTS) – on the Occasion of the international women’s day, senior citizens ‚ Association President Ingrid Korosec calls once again for an automatic pension Splitting, in order to protect women against poverty in old age. „The applications have increased in the past year, makes me very happy and thanks to the efforts of the government. Still, I think an automatic Splitting with an Opt-Out option is still essential,“ says Korosec. To the „press“ had stressed that an Opt-In ineffective, since the majority stay with the standard variant without Splitting. A corresponding scheme could bring „in this government, period,“ Korosec optimistic.

Too many would make use of late thought to your Pension, then the rude awakening, as the senior Federal President would be more. „Still, it is mostly women who take on the upbringing of children and the family in front of the profession. Women, in particular, the loss of income in the Pension meets all the harder. The working parent up to half of his pension rights for a maximum of seven years, the majority of parents, assigns, absorbs this and provides for more justice,“ says Korosec. She is also in favour of the application period for the Pension-Splitting on the border of the completed eighteenth year of the child, will be extended.

Pension Splitting for care

In addition, you can imagine Korosec, the pension-Splitting, the care to expand. After all, three-quarters of all carers of people would be cared for by their families, here is the apply to 80 percent of women. In the case of a relevant scheme, in analogy to Parenthood would share a maximum of seven years, the working Partner in his pension claims with the care Partner. „An expansion would be desirable, but in practice it is not always applicable. Because often those carers are themselves retired,“ stresses Korosec.

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