New savings program – Neos: “will be the largest pension reform in 20 years”

There will probably be changes in the gang pension and the number of adjustment of the first pension adjustment. A partial administration and a sustainability mechanism are also used. The club forbids from ÖVP and Neos presented the timetable. Not here: the social -democrats. However, this does not indicate a conflict in the government, the sugar parties emphasized.

Neos Club -chairman Yannick Shetty spoke for journalists of the “largest pension reform in 20 years”. This is if necessary that the pension system remains functional, said ÖVP Club chairman August Wöginger. People must be kept in working life longer. There are currently 2.5 million pensioners, in 2045 it should be around 3.25 million.

With the tax procedure – the financing of pensions by the contributions of the employees – you no longer have to get along with each other and have to shoot 30 billion euros every year, says Shetty. This would lead to space for future issues such as education.

What should change in the pension system
From January 1, 2026, the earliest possible start time for the Corridor Pension Gradually increased from 62 to 63 years and the required insurance years from 40 to 42. In every three -month steps, the values ​​must increase for two months until the goal is achieved. From 2029 the savings must be one billion euros per year.

Not yet sent in the assessment, but decided in the National Council in July and must also be made possible at the beginning of 2026 Bead boarding pension. If you have claims for early retirement, you will have the opportunity to take 50 percent of the pension, for example, and to continue working 50 percent, Wöginger said.

“In general, this should result in 100 percent.” The partial pension remains, but is integrated into the model of the partial council, said Minister of Social Affairs Korinna Schumann (Spö) in the “Lunch Journal”.

The partial council is a “win-win situation” for both people and the tax and pension system, said the ÖVP club chairman. A 63-year-old man who earns 4,000 euros gross and chooses the partial council would earn around 350 euros more on a reduction in working hours by half than in the hallway. The pension of the legal inaugural age of 65 would finally be higher.

Future governments must continue
For Shetty, the legal sustainability mechanism, which the government also wants to decide this year, is the most important point. If you are unable to meet certain goals – these are still defined – with the steps that have been set, further measures for the pension system must follow. A future government receives a “bundle of measures that can choose from,” said Shetty and mentioned new adjustments to the gang pension.

The Neos would rather be a movement at the age of retirement than a reduction in pension services, he said. If one could decide the regulation as a constitutional determination – with the help of the greens or the FPö – you would do that. The two opposition parties, however, waved away compared to Ö1.

Changes in inflation compensation
In addition, a portion for new new pensions – the adjustment of pensions in the first year – must be 50 percent, regardless of the inaugural month. Already in 1 June the increase in contributions from health insurance for pensioners must also come into effect from 5.1 to 6 percent. The Ministry of Social Affairs also said it was aware that savings were needed. A spokeswoman referred to pillows for hardships – such as freezing the recipe costs 2026.

The government also wants to create a stimulation and monitoring system for the employment of people older than 60. “Food-cost-reducing elements” should be used more specifically according to Wöginger. The monitoring is intended to determine in which industries and how many people older than 60 have to be determined.

Spö: “No wrong” within the coalition
Compared to Ö1, Schumann emphasized that “no intervention in the pension account, the pension is increasing and no lifting of retirement age will remain available for 67”. The pension reform of the coalition nevertheless regards them as an “essential step”.

The lack of the Minister of Social Affairs and the Spö in general was striking during the background discussion. This was not an expression of conflict, the club bans emphasized that everything was awarded by the Triple Coalition. Shetty admitted that the format replaced questions, but recalled that a first measure in the pension area – the inclusion of nurses in the difficult work – was recently presented without which Neos was presented.

The Ministry of Social Affairs said that the innovations would only have been presented when they were ready to say. This would have prevented this. It is “not a mistake” from the coalition partners.