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Workers going abroad to work can remain covered by the social security laws and benefits of their home country and avoid extra fees in the country in which they work. They need an A1 certificate for this.
The sharing economy poses a challenge in terms of pension insurance: when is a person working on digital platforms a self-employed person and when an employee? A new website, soon available also in English, offers information on the statutory obligations relating to sharing economy.
The average age of retirement on an earnings-related pension in Finland edged up to 61.3 years in 2018, according to statistics from the Finnish Centre for Pensions. New retirees were one month older than the year before. Overall the number of new retirees on an old-age pension was considerably down from the previous year as …
Each year, the Finnish Centre for Pensions grants a Pro Gradu Award of €2,000 to a quality Master’s thesis accepted at a Finnish university in the previous calendar year.
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According to statistics of the Finnish Centre for Pensions, the number of new disability pension decisions grew considerably in 2018. At the same time, the share of rejected disability pension applications dropped for the first time in a decade.
The British MPs rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal in a vote on 15 January 2019. This does not mean, however, that Britain will exit from the bloc immediately, with no deal. Together with the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and other authorities, the Finnish Centre for Pensions monitors the situation.
Urban-dwelling males aged 61 are the most likely to take a partial old-age pension. A recent study by the Finnish Centre for Pensions indicates that the self-employed and unemployed are more likely to take payment of the pension than wage earners.
The gender gap in pensions in the EU countries is alarmingly wide, says Italian researcher Francesca Bettio. The attempts to solve this problem come with downsides.
Finnish Centre for Pensions – Central body of and expert on statutory earnings-related pensions