Pension reform will condemn up to 40,000 self-employed workers to years of struggle, warns union
Sunday, March 17, 2013 @ 8:46 PM
A PENSION reform launched by the Spanish government means that 'early retirement age' has now risen to 65, and in order to do so, workers will have to have been paying into the system for 35 years rather than the previous 30. And 'paying into the system' only counts as a full year if the person has been working full-time – part-time work is calculated on a pro-rata basis. This means a person who has been working 20 hours a week instead of 40 will only be considered to have paid their stamp for six months in each year.
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