Economist Gonzalo Bernardos has spoken clearly on television about one of the issues that most worries Spaniards and that is none other than retirement pensions. In this case, does not speak of social security benefits, but of a system that aims to implement the German government in which young people will charge 10 euros per month from 6 to 17 years to complement their future pension.
In a La Sexta program, presenter Iñaki López asks him for this German measure, “it looks like a pension plan because it will also be exempt from taxes to retirement, it seems little money, but somehow, what the German government is recognizing is that pensions will be nefine tomorrow, could it be said that this is a patch?” Bernardos, as on other occasions, responds of course, “yes, it is a patch.”
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“In the first place, 10 euros for 12 years each month are 1,440 euros in total if they do not upload what the boys between 6 and 17 years and with that money … little can be done mostly when what they recommend is that you diversify and not invest everything in the same.”
The professor of the University of Barcelona acknowledges that this measure is nothing more than “a gesture” that “costs expensive” and makes the account “will mean 1.5 billion annually.” Although the intention is “to save from the beginning, thinking in the long term and so that everyone takes into account that the pensions charged in Germany, which are already low, will be even more in the future.”
The young Spaniards believe that too much money is destined for pensions
While the German chancellor sent a blunt message a few days ago to the youth of his country in which he told them not to be confused and began to save, in Spain, a survey of the CIS points to that one in six children under 34 years considers that too money is invested to pay the pensions to the elderly.
In this sense, Gonzalo Bernardos has always been very clear. “Two things happen, the first is that people who are charging the pension have worked very hard for many years. They have quoted a lot, especially when they worked on behalf of others. And secondly, it is that young people charge very little and have a hard time increasing their salary even if they change from company.”
This results in “envy regarding what the elderly have. In our country we have a curiosity, and that is that active workers charge less than in the countries of Ola euro zone, but the elderly charge more because we have one of the most generous pension systems of the world in the world. It is the second after Turkey for the OECD”.
The economist concluded his speech pointing out that “while a Spanish pensioner charges 85.6% of the last salary, a German receives 47%.”