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Bill: Pension Age Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Brit Yeudish
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: February 3546
Description[?]:
| With a healthier and longer-living population, a pension age of 62 is increasingly unrealistic and unaffordable. Yissakhar Levine MK Minister of Finance Leader of Brit Yeudish |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The professional retirement age.
Old value:: 62
Current: 64
Proposed: 65
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:39:09, September 13, 2013 CET | From | Hakla'ut VePituah | To | Debating the Pension Age Act |
| Message | We should be cutting the pension age and pushing for income equality, not raising the pension age! HaMemshala Yitzhak Rosenfeld |
| Date | 23:46:58, September 13, 2013 CET | From | Brit Yeudish | To | Debating the Pension Age Act |
| Message | State pensions are becoming ever more expensive to fund as people live longer and longer. Where does the HaMemshala expect me to find the money to pay for this? Yissakhar Levine MK Minister of Finance Leader of Brit Yeudish |
| Date | 00:00:22, September 14, 2013 CET | From | Hakla'ut VePituah | To | Debating the Pension Age Act |
| Message | Money could be found by introducing another income tax bracket for the middle-class and by raising the percentage of income tax that the richest people have to pay. HaMemshala Yitzhak Rosenfeld |
| Date | 00:38:27, September 14, 2013 CET | From | Brit Yeudish | To | Debating the Pension Age Act |
| Message | Brit Yeudish will not support another income tax hike for the middle classes so soon after the last one. The middle classes are already paying their fair share. Yissakhar Levine MK Minister of Finance Leader of Brit Yeudish |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 52 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 41 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 27 |
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