Who, after the age of 60. Age, year, controls, unemployment insurance, and to get up to the time of Retirement, a bridging pension. The Federal Council holds. On the left side, a lower age was required of right a higher.
The Federal Council after the consultation, however, in his proposal. He has passed on Wednesday in the Embassy, for the attention of the Parliament. With the bridging pension, he wants to improve the social security of older unemployed.
to claim to have people who have lost at the age of 58 or later on your body. A bridging pension is drawn, however, only those who have deposited at least 20 years in the AHV in. In the 15 years immediately prior to the level control must be achieved during a minimum of 10 years with a minimum income of 21’330 franc. That’s the equivalent of 75 percent of the maximum AHV old-age pension.
With the game space of 15 years, the Federal Council has made following consultation, to make a Change. So people could have a claim, has before the modulation is sick or career breaks would have had, he writes.
assets threshold of CHF 100’000
At the asset threshold, he has not made any Changes: to claim, to anyone who has less than 100’000 Swiss francs in assets. In the case of married couples the threshold is 200’000 Swiss francs. Self-occupied residential property is not included in the assets threshold. However, the income from residential property is taken into account in the calculation of income.
The Bridging benefit shall be calculated as a Supplement. Their height corresponds to the difference between the recognised expenses over the determining income. However, there are two deviations to the EL.
Higher living requirements
The amount will be increased demand for General and life to the supplementary benefits by 25 percent. The are currently 24’310 CHF for married couples 36’470 francs. Thus, the disease and disability costs paid, would be paid the supplementary benefits separately.
in Addition, to be capped by the bridging services so that those Affected continue to have an incentive to seek a job. The pension amounts to a maximum of three times the amount for General living needs in the EL. These are for single people 58’350 Swiss francs for married couples 87’525 francs.
4400 people in the year
In the past years were, on average, controls each year, around 2,600 people over the age of 60 and more years. The Federal Council expects that after the introduction phase, about 4400 people have a year to claim on bridging services.
The costs amounted to 30 million Swiss francs in the year 2021, to rise in the subsequent years and amounted to 230 million Swiss francs in the year 2030. The savings on the EL were of to the beginning of the 20 million later, more than 30 million Swiss francs per year, compared with, writes the Federal Council.
No false incentives
The bridging services are funded by the Federal government, the savings for the EL benefit to five-eighths of the Federal government, to three-eighths of the cantons. The cantons and the municipalities also benefited from savings in social assistance, the Federal Council.
According to a study commissioned by the Federal government is not to be feared, that the older unemployed effort less to integrate into the labour market or that the employer dismissed, increasingly, older employees and the bridging pension will be deported.
acceptance of the free movement of persons
The bridging pension is part of a package of Measures for the promotion of the domestic labour force potential, to which the social partners and the Federal Council had agreed. You want to ensure that the Swiss companies to recruit as many workers as possible in the domestic.
This is a prerequisite that the population of co-supporting the free movement of persons with the EU, argued the Federal Council at the presentation of the proposals. He mentioned the bridging pension in his message to limit the initiative of the SVP.
social assistance rate increases
Older people have increasingly difficulties to find a job, if you lose your Job. In the 60 – to 64-Year-olds, the increased social assistance rate from 2011 to 2017 to 47 percent – more than in all other age categories.
In the consultation process, the SVP against the bridging pension. The GLP expressed great reservations. The FDP called for a higher age limit. The SP and the trade unions, by contrast, bridging services from 55 or 57 years. Now the Parliament is on the train.
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Created: 30.10.2019, 13:59 PM
