First step: Women retire with men

It is right that we should think hereafter how to gradually equalize the retirement years for men and women because ultimately women live longer than men.

Said on bTV Minister of Labor and Social Policy Totyu Mladenov, as quoted by Focus. According to him, pension reform should not be done on a piece of today and tomorrow, and there are many problems accumulated.
Advisory Board of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy with the participation of social partners, unions, employers and representatives from the scientific community will soon decide the pension reform, said Mladenov.
Because the EU and for deepening demographic crisis, and our retirees will be lifted, said yesterday the social Deputy Minister Hristina Mitreva at a conference on challenges in social security, organized by the Economic and Social Council, says „24 hours“. She said her first step would be lifting the bar to 63 years for women to catch up with men. Then for both sexes it would continue to grow. Would probably be made for any period of grace.
Aging and increasingly difficult to pay-out is a common problem, so most EU countries have long gone in this direction, said Mitreva. More and more countries in Europe are already working on retirement of 65 years, there were countries with a slat 67. Was highest in Sweden – 68, the
In the middle of next year can be discussed possibility of increase in pensions and wages, predicted today Totyu Mladenov, quoted by National Radio. However, this hypothesis has tied to the necessity of stopping the drain of money from the budget. First, the state must cover the deficit, to stop the theft to gain money in the middle of next year we will sit down with employers and unions to seek new income policy to increase, „said Mladenov.
According to him, have so far been spent on inappropriate funding for retraining programs for unemployed. Over 65 million have been earmarked for training of 137 thousand people in recent years, but the complete mismatch between the needs of marketing and training programs, he accused. Mladenov stated that this is why the labor market have no footage as businesses seek.
From January 1, 2010 will optimize the employees in the social sphere to remain only those it needs, cut the Minister. In some places in the country where there is suspected abuse of money, have stopped the money for retraining the unemployed. Run test programs on effective measures for the labor market, 30 September report will be ready and then we determine what to do, „said Totyu Mladenov.

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