The right-wing Swiss People’s Party has proposed cutting pensions paid abroad or abolishing them altogether. Another idea is not paying the 13th monthly pension to the Swiss Abroad.…
The right-wing Swiss People’s Party has proposed cutting pensions paid abroad or abolishing them altogether. Another idea is not paying the 13th monthly pension to the Swiss Abroad. With elections a year away, the party is provoking a key group of voters. Now the party leadership is back-tracking, but not much. So far, the People’s Party has only floated ideas for cutting the cost of state pensions and changing how they are funded.
But Swiss citizens living abroad are quick to react when their pensions are at stake. At the end of August, Swissinfo reported on a parliamentary proposal to exclude recipients abroad from the 13th monthly pension payment. It sparked outrage among the Swiss Abroad. Anger among Swiss pensioners in Thailand, Brazil and Portugal had barely subsided when the People’s Party made another controversial announcement in September. It proposed adjusting pensions paid abroad to reflect local purchasing power, which would mean steep cuts for some recipients.
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