Latvia - OECD recommends increase of minimum pension - March 31, 2018

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) urges the government to raise minimum pension in order to alleviate poverty amongst elderly people. Latvia’s old-age poverty rate is the second-highest in the OECD, after South Korea: more than 25% of people aged 65 and older have an income below the relative poverty line. The pension system is designed to automatically adapt to demographic trends and because the working population is shrinking fast this also reduces the pension benefits.

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