Sejm subcommittee finishes work on presidential bill on retirement

The retirement age should be lowered in a year, effective 1 October 2017. That is the recommendation of a Sejm subcommittee, which has completed work on a presidential draft law on lowering of the retirement age to 60 for women and 65 for men. The chairman of the subcommittee Jan Mosiński (PiS) gave a positive assessment of the presidential bill. In his opinion, there is no need to fear that the changes will cause financial problems for state institutions. “ZUS will not go bankrupt. Money can always be found for pension payments, because the state is the guarantee. But we are aware, that it is a burden for the state budget,” he stressed. The state is in a position to finance the proposed changes, due to the sealing of the fiscal system, among other things, Mosiński added.