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Social Security - Old-Age Insurance

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E forms: General Overview
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Sickness Insurance
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Invalidity Insurance
Old Age Insurance
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Minimum Income Guarantee

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Representation of Workers
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Old-age Insurance: Beneficiaries and Conditions for Entitlement 

Old-age pension

Payable when the following requirements are met: minimum age 65 years for men and 60 for women; minimum contribution payments of 20 years; no longer working.

Pensions for seniority

Payable to employees and may be applied for before reaching the minimum age laid down for the old age pension. The conditions are: no longer working, 57 years of age and 35 years of contributions (excluding contributions paid for sickness and unemployment) or any age and 37 years of contributions - to be increased to 40 years from 2008 (the contribution for sickness and unemployment benefit is also counted).

For freelance workers: it is no longer necessary to have stopped work. the two alternative requirements are: aged 58 and 35 years of contribution - or any age and 40 years of contributions.

Text last edited on: 02/2007

Source: European Union
© European Communities, 1995-2006
Reproduction is authorised.

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