AHV reform: SVP-Graber via Papi Days

Migrants and the AHV

The question on which the parliament and last but not least also the voting people have to find an answer: How should things go on with the retirement and left-wing provision, or AHV for short?

The facts are on the table: Almost 2.6 million people currently receive an AHV pension, in 2035 it should be around 3 million. The last baby boomers will retire in the coming years, while life expectancy is continuously increasing. At the same time, the number of employed people who finance today’s pensioners is stagnating. From 2026 a 13th AHV pension will also be paid out.

With the Federal Council’s reform package, SVP National Councilor Michael Graber can do as little as a snowman with a sauna vouchers. With additional wage percentages and a higher VAT, medium -sized companies are once again a dripping. Graber cannot understand that the Social Democrats support Baume-Schneider’s plan:

«The SP used to be the classic workers’ party. Today you are the party of those who no longer work. »

In any case, it is important to basically rethink the AHV. For example, the SVP man is bothered by the fact that “immigrants, refugees and asylum migrants” would only have to pay contributions for a year and are already already entitled to AHV. In addition, around a third of all pension funds go abroad. You have to ask yourself how to deal with the entrance threshold and whether it is not smarter to strengthen the pension fund in order to relieve the AHV.

« The AHV is excellent »

« I think I’m in the wrong film, » replies SP stopper Flavia water traps. The AHV is systematically poor, although it is excellently positioned.

Water traps calculated: Last year, AHV made almost CHF 6 billion profit, and the assets are currently CHF 55 billion. She specifies: « AHV pensions could be paid out for a year without a rapping in. »

There is no need to throw a major reform, but it is important to secure the future of the first pillar gradually and without a panic meter-especially with regard to the 13th AHV pension, which will be paid for the first time next year:

« The AHV is the most important income for two thirds of the pensioners. »

The AHV threatens « most massive losses »

Like a father, whose son repeats school, Severin Moser is not angry, but disappointed. The Federal Council’s plans would burden employers, employees, the economy and consumers:

« It’s not good for the Swiss location. »

Moser mentions that Switzerland has the highest non-wage and wage costs- « twice as high as in Germany and France ». In addition, there would be a customs and economic war, on top of that an extremely strong franc. « These are all competitive disadvantages for our export industry, that has to be compensated for. » It is not appropriate to increase wage contributions to secure the AHV.

It is incomprehensible for the President of the Swiss employers’ association that the Federal Council has not even checked a higher retirement age. In the direction of water traps he says: « It’s not about the next two or three years, it’s about the next 15 years. » Moser warns of « most massive losses ».

Increasing the retirement age is off the table

When the retention of retirement age, Daniel Lampart from the Swiss Trade Union Confederation starts like an A380 that has to stop landing.

He relishes the retirement initiative supported by the employers’ association, which was the goal of retirement age 67 and was sunk with almost 75 percent no votes last year. The trade unionist emphasizes:

« It cut off less than any Juso initiative. »

A crystal -clear sign for Lampart: the increase in retirement age is off the table. Either way, it is idle to want people to work longer. Lampart quotes a study by Swiss Life-where Severin Moser is sitting on the board-according to which six out of ten companies are not willing to hire more than 55-year-old workers. As long as people do not even let people work up to 65, one does not have to discuss an increase in retirement age.

For Lampart, additional wage percentages of 0.8 percent – half of them to be borne by employers and employees – are manageable. « It costs people a year more, 300 francs, but they also have 2000 francs more pension – a great investment. »

The Papi Day and the AHV

The positions were clearly distributed: left and unions have no problems with measures such as higher wage percentages, they are a thorn in the side of the bourgeois. On the left side you want to strengthen the AHV, the business and employers’ associations are the second and the third pillar, on the other hand.

How much the two camps divergent in their views was shown in the last quarter of the intense but mostly decent AHV «arena». SVP National Councilor Graber threw the topic of part-time work: « Many young people no longer work 100 percent. » Graber illustrated his argument with an example:

«I have colleagues who have a dady day. Then go to the zoo with the son because it’s cool. »

The ‘wage percentages’ of this day would be missing in the AHV, Graber continued. « With your policy, part -time work is so promoted that the AHV lacks a lot of money before retirement. »

SP-Standstädin Flavia Waterfalls only acknowledged Graber’s reason with an annoyed one: « Oh my god ».

At the socio -political level, no unity could be reached in the remaining broadcast. However, as a moderator Brotz for the final round, a picture of the Swiss ice hockey team hidden, the invited politicians unanimously expressed their support and were pleased with the course of Patrick Fischer’s men. After all.