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Universal pension (also referred to as "demogrant", "categorical pension" or "citizens pension") is a pension where the only criteria for receiving it is age and citizenship, resp. residence. Some countries are specifying these criteria further, like The Netherlands which requires 50 years of residency between ages of 15 and 65 for a full ...
This list of largest pension funds in the United States involves two main groups: government pension funds for public employees and collectively bargained pension funds, jointly managed between employer and employee representatives after the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.
Voluntary private collective pension provision; Voluntary private individual pension provision Georgia: Basic pension: N/A: N/A: N/A Germany: Social assistance: Social insurance system: Voluntary occupational pension insurance: Private pension schemes Hong Kong: Basic pension: Provident fund system: N/A: N/A Hungary: Social assistance: Private ...
At the outset of the Civil War the General Law pension system was established by congress for both volunteer and conscripted soldiers fighting in the Union Army. [4] Payouts derived from this plan were based on degree of injury and subject to review by government boards. By 1890, general old-age pensions were incorporated for Union veterans. [5]
A pension may be a basic income for retired persons. There are also quasi-basic income programs that are limited to certain population groups or time periods, like Bolsa Familia in Brazil , which is concentrated on the poor, or the Thamarat Program in Sudan , which was introduced by the transitional government to ease the effects of the ...
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A pension (/ ˈ p ɛ n ʃ ən /; from Latin pensiō 'payment') is a fund into which amounts are paid regularly during an individual's working career, and from which periodic payments are made to support the person's retirement from work. A pension may be: a "defined benefit plan", where defined periodic payments are made in retirement. The ...