Temer Wants Brazil to Have Oldest Retirement Age in World
Temer Wants Brazil to Have Oldest Retirement Age in World
Brazil's interim President Michel Temer attends a meeting with his economic team at the
Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, June 22, 2016. | Photo: Reuters
Published 2 July 2016
No country in the world has a minimum retirement age above 67, but Temer wants to raise Brazil's to 70. Pension reform has become a national priority for Brazil's coup-imposed President Michel Temer, who wants to establish the world's harshest retirement age for worker's irrespective of the level of their contributions to social security.
Although no country in the world has a minimum retirement age above 67, Temer is holding negotiations with a labor commission that has excluded many of the country's main trade unions and involves government representatives.
Speaking to the press Friday, Presidential Chief of Staf Eliseu Padilha said the project has yet to be submitted to Congress, but it will be approved by the end of the year if the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff is confirmed by the Senate.
Another measure announced by Temer's government is the plan to reduce benefits paid by social security. The minimum pension individuals currently receive in Brazil is equivalent to the minimum wage, which accounts for 70 percent of pensioners.
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Yep, right-wing politicians, the puppets of the 1%'ers don't care about how hard poor people will have to work until 70, it has absolutely no interest for them at all. Just the way plantation owners felt about the enslaved people who worked until they dropped.
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