Pensioners associations demand measures for consolidation and improvement of the public pension system.

-Establish voluntary retirement, measures to promote the job tenure of over the age of 55 and new formulas to reconcile labor and pension between the contributions of retirees.

– Consider priority to promote awareness and information campaigns on our system of pensions and welfare mechanisms existing private and public.

Madrid, February 2012. Coinciding with the celebration of 2012 as a year for active ageing and intergenerational solidarity, federations and associations of retirees and pensioners of all Spain urge society to reflect on the social, revolution caused by the significant ageing of the population that will occur in the coming years.

Upcoming demographic projections force to think from now in a future society that is different to the current one in many respects. According to the President of the Democratic Union of pensioners, UDP, Luis Martín Pindado, the promotion of active ageing policies is an investment in social capital and economic opportunity for the country, as well as an inexhaustible vein for the creation of employment in the field of participation and the social construction of the Active older people ”.

According to the projection of population of Spain in the long term, INE in the 2049 over 64 years of age constitute 31.9% of the total population compared to 17.3% today.

In little more than 30 years the population of older people will increase from the current 8,000,000 to 15,000,000.

There are currently about 22 elderly by every hundred potentially active age, but in 2049 this relationship will have duplicate (53 percent each), i.e. two people age work for every older person (white book of active ageing). Must continue to take steps today to ensure that future generations can enjoy a public pension system adequate and sustainable ” expresses Pindado.

The working mass tends to diminish in the coming decades, and when the boom generations retire in 25 years, the relationship between major and potentially active population will alter significantly. Is necessary to establish new mechanisms of intergenerational solidarity that this increase in social spending rests not only with younger workers and consider the productive dimension, in its broadest sense, of older persons ”, indicates Pindado in this regard.

Twelve causes campaign for 2012

In this sense associations of elders of all Spain, participants in the campaign twelve causes for 2012 ” conducted by the Imserso in collaboration with UDP, proposed measures as:

-establish retirement volunteer.

-fixed penalties to the companies that carry out retirement involuntary.

-establish new legal formulas to combine in a way.

flexible paid work and the perception of a pension.

-encourage continuous training and courses of retraining for over 50 years in order to remain in the company.

-encourage with relief and aid to companies that maintain workers over the age of 50 years.

-make communication campaigns to promote elders of 50 years as assets of the companies. Promote the image of the companies with higher in their templates, as reliable companies with experience and where there is Exchange intergenerational.

-self-employment in the last years of working life is a choice that must work in the immediate future.

-promote collective agreements include clauses favouring of real and effective non-discrimination by big reason whyn of age access and maintenance in the employment of the workers of more age.

-promote awareness and information campaigns on our system of pensions and welfare mechanisms existing private and public.

-Establish the necessary structural changes so that the level of employment in Spain is comparable to the Europe of 15.

-establish incentives for employment training youth.

-promote support to birth by establishing new protective measures for families and raising children.

The final document with reports, arguments and contributions from associations of elders on the public pension system, will be delivered to policymakers of major national and regional administrations, as well as entities, bodies and institutions related to the third sector, and the media.