Economy Minister Hausner meets with SLD to discuss budget cuts

One of the amendments to the program which was proposed during the debate, and which Hausner is willing to consider is excluding those who have been receiving pensions for over ten years from the pension verification process. The other is to standardize the retirement age of women and men in 2014, and not in 2009 as was planned earlier. At the beginning of the meeting, Hausner refused to call his proposals cuts. "We are not physically taking anything from anybody, we are simply submitting better solutions. These are not blind, mechanical cuts," announced Hausner, The Economy Minister also said he plans to limit the expenditure on governmental phone calls and cars by 15%, as well as limiting the number of advisers in the political offices of Ministries. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 3) A.K.