SPÖ warns: Pension age 70 years is an attack on seniors!

SPÖ warns: Pension age 70 years is an attack on seniors!

Österreich - On June 6, 2025, the resistance to the demand of Georg Knill, the President of the Industrial Association (IV), rises to increase retirement age to 70 years. The SPÖ federal managing director Klaus RASHEIM criticizes this initiative. He describes the IV as an "ice -cold lobby of the super -rich" that ignore the older person. According to rare home, many people already have difficulty reaching the statutory retirement age. Therefore, the SPÖ will not support the retirement age and thus protects the interests of employees and pensioners in Austria, such as ots holds.

RASTHEIM indicates that the SPÖ has successfully prevented an increase in the statutory retirement age from 65 to 67 years and other pension losses in the past. He also rejects the request of municipal association chief Pressl to use the additional pension references to finance nursing homes. Instead, the SPÖ has worked for age -appropriate jobs and initiatives such as the "Aktion 55PLUS" for older long -term unemployed and ensures that the statutory retirement age is not increased.

Criticism of Knill's suggestions

The Pensioners' Association (PVÖ) also creates sharp criticism against Knill's proposal. PVÖ President Helmut Bieler describes the statements as a polemic that creates uncertainty. He points out that Knill initiated a discussion about lifting the retirement age in the ORF program "ZiB2", similar to how it was recently decided in Denmark. Bieler, on the other hand, calls for more jobs for people over 50 and health promotion measures for older workers to support their integration into the labor market, as [the press] (https://www.diepresse.com/19764482/pensions beginn-70-jahren-iv-praesident-knill-in-der-Kritik).

The PVÖ also proposes a bonus malus system to reward companies that hire older workers, while those who are released in early retirement or older employees should be punished. These measures are necessary because a third of the long -term unemployed in Austria is over 50 years old.

demographic challenges

The discussion about retirement age takes place against the background of demographic changes that strongly influence the Austrian labor market. A report by Agenda Austria emphasizes that Austrian employees often leave the labor market early on. Earfutable pension admissions, such as corridor or heavy worker pensions, increase the pressure on the pension system. In comparison to other countries such as Germany and Sweden, Austria has high incentives for premature retirement and a low pension age, which leads to a dramatically high long -term unemployment among older people, as in the publication of [Agenda Austria] (https://www.agenda-austria.at/publikationen/jung-aelter-arbeitslos/options-zur- Mehrtbeschaftligung-aupeist/).

In order to promote the integration of older workers into the labor market, the report recommends changing the framework and increasing the participation of older workers to stabilize the pension system. The previous systems of active labor market policy have proven to be not very effective, which is why a revision seems necessary.