PM Szydło: Poland to lower the retirement age by the end of 2016

"A bill submitted by the president [on lowering the retirement age] is currently before a parliamentary committee. I think that by the end of the year it will be adopted," Prime Minister Beata Szydło told reporters on Monday. Recently in May, President Andrzej Duda announced that a decision to lower the retirement age will be made this year. Duda wants the retirement age to return to 65 for men and 60 for women, down from the 67 for both sexes introduced by the PO. Law and Justice (PiS) party won a general election in October after promising Poles a wide range of measures that included a lowering the retirement age, monthly child benefit of PLN 500, an increase in the tax-free allowance and free medicines for elderly people.