The Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy has no plans to undertake work in the future on raising the retirement age or changing the rules for retirement – according to the ministry's response to a parliamentary question. As the ministry emphasizes, there is no social support for such an idea.
“The retirement age in Poland is an element of the social contract. All studies indicate that the vast majority of citizens of the Republic of Poland expect the retirement age to be maintained at the current level. There is a general agreement that it should be 60 years for women and 65 years for men,” wrote Deputy Minister Sebastian Gajewski.
No support for raising retirement age in Poland
He referred to the report published by the Ignacy Daszyński Center in 2023 entitled “What is a fair pension?”, according to which the proposal to raise the retirement age for women and men to 67 has little support.
“Only 2 percent of respondents support such a change. The survey clearly showed a lack of social acceptance for raising the retirement age,” noted Gajewski.
“For this reason, the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy is not working on raising the retirement age or changing the rules for retirement. There are also no plans to undertake such work in the future,” he concluded.
Retirement age in Poland
The general retirement age in Poland varies by gender and is 60 for women and 65 for men.
The PO-PSL government introduced a reform in 2013 that assumed that men and women would retire at the age of 67. The changes were spread over time – the retirement age was to increase gradually until 2020 for men and 2040 for women.
He reversed these changes PIS in 2017.
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