Chamber finds new pension rules too strict – Financieel Dagblad (Registration)

Chamber finds new pension rules too strict – Financieel Dagblad (Registration)

The House finds the proposed new rules for pension parts too strict. State Secretary for Social Affairs Jetta Klijnsma should therefore today at the wetbehandeling in the House probably what will admit.

The new rules are intended to make against market shocks and the fact that people are living longer than previously expected. pension system more resistant Pension funds should include larger buffers will persist and can quickly adapt less pensions to inflation.

Purchasing power backfire

Opposition parties CDA, SP, PVV and 50-plus left in the general debate already know they have the bill too far find go. Would unfairly miss purchasing power because the pensions may be inflation. Hardly corrected Elderly CDA therefore considers that the limit should be, above indexation must come down.

So far Klijnsma probably not need to go, because the government parties and the “most beloved opposition parties’ D66, Christian Union and SGP see nothing in the CDA proposal. “That would be detrimental to young people and workers and is therefore extremely unwise,” said Steven van Weyenberg D66. But also in particular the Labour Party, the Christian Union and SGP play still doubts about the severity of some rules.

Tempo too skinny ‘

So they are critical of the demands placed on overtaking missed indexation. In the new proposal, which is only allowed when a pension weather is quite good shape and the recovery must be spread over ten years. “The rate at which this can is really too skinny. There are people sitting on the zero line for years. If the weather goes well with a fund that people have to catch-up adjustments can get, faster says Elbert Dijkgraaf of SGP.

Also Carola Schouten of the Christian Union that is too long ten years. “That’s no more to explain to people, ‘says the MP. They therefore want the requirement of ten years is replaced five. Roos Vermeij of the Labour Party also believes that the rules of catch-up adjustment once held against the light, but under the condition that the generation balance remains intact.

No two regimes

In addition, PvdA and the Christian Union found that the discount rate, which pension funds must calculate future pension liabilities must exceed the interest rate for European insurers. no more stringent ‘It is important that no two regimes come, “says Schouten. Van Weyenberg D66 outlines need for expediency. Watched while there “There is a strong tendency to discount rate of exchange as that fund suits,” says the D66 MP.

D66 and SGP would in turn Klijnsma a firm commitment that this law, which is seen as ‘essential maintenance’, does not brake to really take the pension system. overhauled They include want people to get over their pensions.

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Opposition meet

Klijnsma will not come back on to allow them in the Senate, where the government has no majority has enough support on a Pensions. That happened last year with the bill for the lower pension. She will be the most obvious opposition parties D66, Christian Union and SGP therefore want to accomodate.

Netherlands is a place again fallen on the world rank rice best pension systems. In 2012 Netherlands lost all the first place to Denmark and Netherlands must now relinquish second place to Australia and it drops to three. This is evident from the annual Global Pension Index pension adviser Mercer. Netherlands scored include lower than last year on the extent to which pensions may provide a viable mimimuminkomen.