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Dutch pension fund tightens purse strings
retired--flkr-monocle.jpg One of the Netherlands' pension funds has warned that it will slightly increase the premiums that future retirees are paying, and current pensions will only be partially indexed to inflation. The returns on the funds' investment are financing the pensions of some 2 million ...
Dutch pension system needs overhaul
goudswaard.jpg The existing pension system is unsustainable and needs ... percent of their salary as a pension at the age of 65. The commission headed by Professor Kees ... of the pension system in the face of an ageing population and the financial crisis. The Dutch system consists ...
Retirement pensions cost Dutch too much
said that Dutch employers and trade unions should sit down and try to reform the retirement pensions ... that the current way of financing retirement pensions cannot be upheld and a new approach was needed. Investment-based The Dutch retirement pensions system is based on huge investment funds. Money is fed ...
Dutch pensioner arrested over child porn
Location Schiphol Airport Netherlands Dutch News Bulletin Left Bottom ...
Expats based in Europe worry most over pension benefits
percent of expats polled are satisfied with their pension benefits. The labour market survey which was filled out by 400 expats based in Europe showed they are not happy with their pension benefits ... and welfare benefits as compared with their home countries. Expats in Europe least happy over pensions ...
MPs question experts on new pension law
effects of the government measure. The unions hope an alternative to increasing the pensionable ... 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in protest against the pension-age increase. Public transport workers in The Hague ...
Dutch trade union pension plan rejected
the new pension law. If passed, the law, which is currently being debated in the Netherlands, will raise the national pension age to 67. The Dutch lower house is also sceptical about the plan. The FNV trade ... workers reach the new pensionable age in good health. This will mean retraining people in good time ...
Senegalese veterans demand equal pensions
mobilised in different ranks of the French army between 1857 and 1960 demand an equal pension ... pensions will now be the next step," he concluded. But this official statement does ... the pensions of all former military men, so we get the same amount of money as the French, like Jacques Chirac ...
Unions rally against raising pension age
(Photo: ANP) (rising pension age, the Netherlands, unions) ...
Pension age to rise by one month every year
wants to begin raising the pension age as of 2011 by one month every year. The council, which is hosting negotiations between unions and employers about pension plans, says the current right to pension as of age 65 would continue to exist but would entail a reduction in the pension amount. Under the plan ...
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