Projet de loi modifiant diverses dispositions relatives à la pension de retraite des travailleurs salariés et des indépendants compte tenu du principe de l'unité de carrière.
General information ¶
- Submitted by
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The Senate
- Submission date
- April 16, 2002
- Official page
- Visit
- Status
- Adopted
- Requirement
- Simple
- Subjects
- pension scheme survivor's benefit white-collar worker self-employed person
Voting ¶
- Voted to adopt
- Groen CD&V Vooruit Ecolo LE PS | SP Open Vld N-VA MR FN VB
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Discussion ¶
March 27, 2003 | Plenary session (Chamber of representatives)
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President Herman De Croo ⚙
Mr Goutry, the rapporteur, refers to his written report.
Greta D'hondt CD&V ⚙
Mr. Speaker, I will briefly, from my bench, give my presentation.
We can support this bill, which comes from the Senate, with full conviction. This puts an end to a discrimination that we have accused for a while and about which I have asked the Minister of Pensions, Mr Vandenbroucke, several times. I insisted that this should be arranged. If this draft is adopted today, which I do not doubt, people will not only be able to choose the most favourable pension scheme, as it has been so far, but will also correct the still existing discrimination against self-employed persons. There was still in our pension law—thinking that in all cases the employee system was more advantageous—that the employee system always prevailed over the self-employed system. This is not so in all cases. There are exceptions where the system for self-employed may be more advantageous.
Let me give you an example, Mr. President. For someone who is an employee, wants to become self-employed and "blows out" in one while engaging in the self-employed statute, the earnings in the employee statute may sometimes have become so low that it is better to get a year's pension in the self-employed statute. It happens . We there discriminated against people on the general rule that every pensioner could choose the most interesting system. This was not the case here, but this will be corrected by this law — if it is adopted today. I think this is fair. Especially in a time when we advocate flexibility in the career, that flexibility should in no case be punished. We are not helping hundreds of thousands of people, but we are bringing up some striking examples of retirement disadvantage.