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The author Barbara Teiber criticizes the demand from AMS chief Johannes Kopf for a higher retirement age and emphasizes that instead, the creation of age-appropriate jobs and combating unemployment should be the focus. #Pensionsantrittsalter #Arbeitsmarkt #Gleichstellung (translated)

The author stated that the pay-as-you-go pension system impoverishes everyone and that demographic changes condemn it. He indicated that the number of workers per retiree has dropped from 4 to 1.7 and estimated that the system is not supportive, with workers, in his opinion, having to work hard to finance pensions. https://t.co/ag69VPy0Wj #Retraite #Démographie #Solidarité #FR (translated)

Target pensions or welfare, don't tax banks, neoliberal IMF tells UK Chancellor. Silence on corporate welfare, bank subsidies and profiteering; poverty, equitable distribution of income and wealth. Sacrificing the old, poor, sick to the gods of fiscal rules, so that banks are not inconvenienced.

The author said French teachers had noticed something on their payslips that they believed revealed the scale of a school-funding crisis. They argued that money people thought was funding schools was instead going towards pensions, describing the discovery as “a bombshell”. https://t.co/JSO413nPAP #Éducation #France #CriseFinancière #FR

Guillaume Kasbarian challenged the idea that retirees acquired their rights through their contributions, arguing that these had financed their parents' pensions and that current contributions financed theirs. He noted that a worker contributed 15% in the 1970s, compared to 28% today. He also wrote that the deputies refused an indexation that was reassessed every year, while the debt, in his opinion, was exploding, and compared the pension system to a Ponzi scheme. #Retraites #Pensions #Économie (translated)

According to a recent study, many households, especially women, are struggling with financial difficulties, as a lack of capital and insufficient knowledge about private pension provision lead to poor financial assessment. #FinanzielleVorsorge #Altersvorsorge #Frauenfinanzen (translated)

The letters to the editor from October 16, 2026, discuss whether there are blind spots in societal and political perception, particularly regarding the pension system and the control of the Russian Orthodox religious education in Austria. #Pensionierung #UkraineKrieg #RussischOrthodoxeKirche (translated)

The Victoire Populaire 2027 account presented what it described as the "spending" component of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's program for 2027. It indicated that this program foresaw a minimum wage of 1,700 euros net per month, a 10% increase in the civil servants' index point after its thaw, as well as a 10% increase in pensions, family allowances, and other aid. According to the account, the program would also guarantee young people an income equivalent to the poverty line, set at 1,331 euros per month, and would allocate 22.2 billion euros to public services. Lastly, it planned to repeal the pension and unemployment reforms. #Mélenchon2027 #PolitiqueFrançaise #JusticeSociale (translated)

Cerfia pointed out, quoting Marianne, that Germany allocated 46.9 billion euros to its armed forces in 2021 and planned to spend 162.9 billion by 2029. France, according to the post, was expected to dedicate 76.3 billion euros to it in 2030, excluding retirement pensions. https://t.co/TZSPyjM3Xk #Allemagne #France #DépensesMilitaires (translated)

The unions and management have agreed on a 1.4% increase in the supplementary pensions of former private sector employees, a measure awaited after the freeze on pensions from the previous year and in a context where the government is seeking savings on pensions. #Retraités #Fiscalité #Économie (translated)

Scalable-Chef Erik Podzuweit sees great potential in artificial intelligence for the neobroker, which recently opened its own bank branch in Austria and aims to attract customers with attractive daily interest rates of 2.6 percent, while simultaneously pointing out the necessity of financial education and discussing the challenges due to demographic pressure on pension systems. #Finanzbildung #Neobroker #KünstlicheIntelligenz (translated)

"The protection of employees is a fundamental prerequisite for reaching retirement age in good health at all." Ines Stilling, head of the social department at AK Wien, criticizes that despite increasing burdens in the workplace, not a single case of a mental illness has been recognized as an occupational disease. #Arbeitsunfälle #Gesundheitsschutz #PsychischeErkrankungen (translated)

The author denounced the maintenance of a salary of 25,000 euros per month for a woman who, according to him, no longer presented the France 2 newscast. He opposed this remuneration to the sacrifices that, in his opinion, continued to be demanded from retirees receiving small pensions, the sick, and other French people, to whom the group he criticized was giving lessons. https://t.co/IdrNrqbDP9 #France #JusticeSociale #Économie #FR (translated)

David Lisnard stated that pensions and bureaucracy, in his opinion, diverted resources intended for field services. He noted that pensions accounted for 35% of the social security budget and 32% of the education budget, attributing the situation to the maintenance of a system entirely based on redistribution despite demographic decline and funding shortfalls. He advocated for the introduction of a share of capitalization, which he presented as now consensual and necessary, in his view, to preserve public services and public finances. While awaiting a transition that he said he would detail soon, he proposed no longer indexing the highest pensions to inflation, aligning public and private schemes, and eliminating special regimes. He indicated that these measures would begin in May 2027. #OnArrive #Réformes #Retraites #Bureaucratie (translated)

Joan Larroumec stated that the French private pension system was also heavily in deficit, estimating its deficit at 77 billion euros. He argued that the public system's deficit reached 50 billion euros per year, masked in his view by accounting overcontributions, notably 82% for the state and 126% for the military. According to his calculations, the private system received 228 billion euros in contributions, against 300 billion euros in pensions paid, or 305 billion euros including management fees. He indicated that the gap was covered by subsidies, allocated taxes, and debt. He specifically cited 37 billion euros in levies related to the CSG and allocated taxes, 24 billion euros in reimbursements by the state for exemptions from charges, and 17 billion euros collected from family and unemployment funds. Larroumec estimated that the pay-as-you-go system should have been adjusted 25 years ago, either by lowering pensions or raising the retirement age, due to the aging population and the decrease in the number of active workers per retiree. He attributed the lack of reform to a lack of political will and opposition from the population, stating that the deficits had been financed through overcontributions in the public sector and by taxes, subsidies, and debt in the private sector. He also disputed the figures from the Retirement Orientation Council, which estimated the deficit at 5 billion euros. According to his calculations, 420 billion euros were spent each year on pensions, against 282 billion euros in contributions collected, leaving 137 billion euros to be found elsewhere in the economy. He suggested that political leaders were staying silent about the problem because retirees formed the largest electorate in France and that attempts at reform had cost some elected officials their jobs. #Retraites #France #Déficit (translated)

The article discusses risk scenarios related to Swedish pension funds' investments in AI companies, where the author warns about the lack of transparency and the potential economic, physical, social, and military risks that come with this development. #Pensioner #AI #Investeringar (translated)

Cerfia indicated that Bercy had revealed for the first time the share of pensions in ministerial budgets. According to the figures cited by the account, they would represent 32% of the budget of the National Education and 30% of that of the Interior. In total, nearly 50 billion euros per year, or more than 11% of the central government's budget, would finance pensions without appearing as pension expenses in the budgets of the ministries, he added, specifying that all ministries were concerned. #Retraites #BudgetPublic #Économie (translated)