Pension News
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By AFP
Moscow -
A Russian government proposal to hike the state pension age to 63 for women and 65 for men had as of Monday seen more than 1.5 million people sign a petition against the move.
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By AFP
Moscow -
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday proposed raising the state pension age to 65 for men and 63 for women, the first such hike in almost nine decades.
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By AFP
Taipei -
Taiwanese military veterans on Wednesday scuffled with police as they tried to storm parliament in the latest of a series of protests against planned pension cuts.
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Santiago -
Some 10,000 people marched through the Chilean capital Sunday demanding an end to the privatized pension system created under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, demanding improved conditions.
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By AFP
Madrid -
Tens of thousands of Spaniards rallied across the country Saturday to demand better pensions as unions accused the government of seeking to privatise retirement benefits.
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By AFP
Harare -
Zimbabwe's ousted president Robert Mugabe will get a residence, a car fleet and private air travel as part of a new government-funded retirement package for former leaders, state media reported Thursday.
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Geneva -
Swiss voters rejected on Sunday a divisive pension reform plan that the government proposed to address the needs of an ageing population.The final results showed 52.
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Geneva -
Switzerland votes Sunday on a divisive pension reform plan the government says is vital to safeguard benefits but which critics deride as too modest to rescue a retirement system in financial peril.
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By AFP
Atenas -
In the living room of his small Athens flat, 40-year-old Dimitris Voutsinos scours the web for job ads -- one of thousands struggling to cope as Greece's economic crisis endures.
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Varsovia -
Polish lawmakers on Wednesday voted to reinstate a lower retirement age of 65 for men and 60 for women starting in 2018, despite questions over its effect on public finances.
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Santiago -
Chilean police used tear gas and water cannon to break up a protest Friday against the country's privatized pension system, which opponents say is leaving many retirees in poverty.
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By AFP
Istanbul -
Turkey has promised to take the toughest action against the US-based cleric whom President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blames for last week's failed coup.
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By AFP
New Delhi -
Three million Indian army veterans won a decades-long battle Saturday to change the way their pensions are calculated, as the government bent to protesters' demands and announced it would overhaul the controversial scheme.
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Madrid -
Eyeing a year-end general election, Spanish retirees who worked abroad have stepped up their protests against the cash-strapped government's bid to collect back taxes on their foreign pensions.
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Oslo -
Oil-rich Norway moved Friday to target its huge sovereign wealth fund's investments more closely at boosting green businesses, but environmentalists said the proposals were not strong enough.
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Yerevan -
Some 6,000 opposition activists protested in Yerevan on Saturday against a controversial new obligatory pension scheme.
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Subiaco -
A gruesome discovery was made recently in an isolated house in Subiaco, Italy. A man's elderly father had died in August 2011 and he hid the body in a sealed room in his house in order to continue collecting his father's pension.
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Although the ratio of Walmart's Chief Executive Officer to worker pay is high, there is an even greater gap between the retirement package of CEO Mike Duke and the average value of the pension of a non-executive Walmart worker.
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The U.K. government is supporting new plans to create additional housing to help older and disabled people to maintain their independence for longer.
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Sergeant Lee Nolan, an Iraq war veteran, was just 72 hours away from qualifying for a full Army pension before he was made redundant.
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From August 9, 2009 to Sept. 2, 2012, Jamey Carroll hit as many home runs as the majority of the North American population - zero.
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Ottawa -
The Canadian Taxpayer Federation (CTF) launched a new campaign attacking the pensions of Canadian Members of Parliament, who are eligible for the pension plan after only six years in office at a rate of approximately $5,930 per month.
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Ferndale -
A Washington state woman has been accused of impersonating her mother, who died in 2007, in order to collect her pension benefits.
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The fleeing method used by Wisconsin democratic lawmakers to prevent quorum has now been imitated by Indiana. As many state require drastic budget changes, similar techniques by the opposition threaten to become a trend.
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Nortel pensioners were at Queen's Park this afternoon protesting the Ontario's government plan to wind up their pension fund and convert it into individual annuities with various financial institutions.
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French pension system is in troubles. The overall population gets older and there are less workers but more and more retired people.
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Former Hydro One CEO, Eleanor Clitheroe, lost her bid to have her pension from the Province of Ontario increased. Instead of the $33,644 she wanted, she will have to make do with a pension of $25,637 a month when she retires.
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CAW members gathered at Queen's Park yesterday to publicize their demands that the government guarantee members' pensions.
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Disgraced former boss of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Sir Fred Goodwin has refused to give up a £650,000 a year pension despite widespread outrage.
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Chesley Sullenberger, the hero pilot who rescued Flight 1549 and saved all 155 people aboard, told a government committee that he suffered a 40 per cent pay cut to stay in the job and his pensions were terminated.
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Last November's strike by public service sector workers in the UK. Video screen capture
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