Pensioners associations demand measures for consolidation and improvement of the public pension system.
Associations of pensioners calling for measures for the consolidation and improvement of the public pension system. -demographic and migration trends will do that in 2050 there are less than two people working for each retiree age -Establish voluntary retirement, measures to promote the job tenure of over the age of 55 and new formulas to reconcile labor and pension between the contributions of retirees. – Consider priority to promote awareness and information campaigns on our system of pensions and welfare mechanisms existing private and public. Madrid, February 2012. Coinciding with the celebration of 2012 as a year for active ageing and intergenerational solidarity, federations and associations of retirees and pensioners of all Spain urge society to reflect on the social, revolution caused by the significant ageing of the population that will occur in the coming years. Upcoming demographic projections force to think from now in a future society that is different to the current one in many respects. According to the President of the Democratic Union of pensioners, UDP, Luis MartÃn Pindado, the promotion of active ageing policies is an investment in social capital and economic opportunity for the country, as well as an inexhaustible vein for the creation of employment in the field of participation and the social construction of the Active older people ”. According to the projection of population of Spain in the long term, INE...
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