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Retirees in rural areas have a lower income than those in urban areas, but the life satisfaction of both is at an equal level (7/10). Among other things, homeownership increases life satisfaction among rural retirees. This is evident in a recent study made by the Finnish Centre for Pensions that measured also the perceived economic …

The online course ”The Finnish Earnings-related Pension System” is intended for persons who work within or with the earnings-related pension system and who need a general overview of the pension system in English.

The social security agreement will affect the social security of persons moving between Finland and Japan. It concerns the earnings-related pension system in Finland and the Japanese workers’ pension insurance.

The conference Pension Adequacy in Europe – Today and Tomorrow, arranged in Helsinki on Tuesday 17 September 2019, gathered European experts on pension adequacy. A video recording of the conference, the presenters’ slides and three interviews are now available on this website.

The principle of free movement of workers is one of the most important principles of the EU. To guarantee free movement for all while ensuring their social security rights, the cooperation between authorities must be carried out in good spirit. This was established by the seminar of the EU network MoveS that took place in …

Most pension investors struggled last year, particularly in the last quarter of the year. The Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (SPU) suffered the most from the slump in stock prices, losing as much as 6 per cent of its assets. Yet the return of nearly all of the actors included in the comparison improved over …

What is the current status of the transnational cooperation between European social security institutions? Where are we heading according to European experts? Register this week and join the MoveS seminar: ”Sincere cooperation – from principle to practice” in Helsinki, Finland on 13 September 2019.  

Retirees who live in rural areas have a clearly lower income and struggle slightly more with making ends meet than do retirees who live in urban areas. Despite this, rural retires are not less satisfied with their lives than urban ones. 

Most workers posted from Finland are posted to Sweden. In 2018, nearly four out of five certificates for posted workers were granted to men. When viewed by groups of people, only officials and grant recipients included more women (58%) than men.

In 2018 earnings-related pension expenditure amounted to 27.9 billion euros, up 800 million from the year before. The number of new old-age retirees fell back to 49,000, representing a decrease of almost 8,000 or eight per cent from 2017. The main reason was the pension reform that was put into effect in 2017.