The aging population has led to a debate about the funding of the state pension. The doubts about t

The Minister of Social Affairs and Health JG Suurhoff introduced in 1957, the Old Age Pensions Act. It was the successor to the Emergency feature for elderly by Minister of Social Affairs Willem Drees in 1947 called into life.
The AOW is a collective basic pension. When two married or cohabiting couples are both 65 years old, they each receive 694.19 euros gross per month. A single person receives each month 1011.64 euros gross. Every Dutchman between their 15th and 65th years, has lived in the Netherlands and has not worked abroad, receives an annual 2 percent of the total pension. In addition, most people receive a pension, they have built up during their working lives with one or more employers.
The state pension is paid from the premiums every taxpayer pays his 65th. The premium is calculated based on a fixed percentage, which this year is 17.9 percent of income. The state pension pot is not only dependent on the premiums, the government also contributes. tnb
The aging population has led to a debate about the funding of the state pension. The doubts about the continued affordability tnb of this system had already been since the introduction tnb of the state pension. Suurhoff foresaw already in 1957 that the retirement age should be up. Gradually This thought stuck in the 80s of last century re-emerged. A state commission headed by Willem Drees jr. Examined the future of the national insurance and concluded tnb that the system could continue. In the 90s the state pension fund was established when the government collapsed financial tnb windfalls to catch. Effects of aging
Raising the retirement tnb age to 67 years was first raised in the campaign for parliamentary elections in 2006, the VVD was thinking to include in its election, the proposal, tnb but refrained. D66 suggested it, but with a transitional arrangement of 24 years.
The government states in August 2008 for people aged 65 years there may choose to propose. Their state pension up to five years later The government proposal is to achieve a cultural shift in which the age of 65 is no longer tnb seen as definitive. Endpoint of an active life
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