In 1997, the CSSZ paid out pensions to 2,485,110 people, while last year it was 234,051 people more, an increase by 8.6 percent. Women prevail among pensioners.
Last year, almost 1.7 million women received pensions, compared to 1.07 million of men. The number of old-age pensioners has increased the steepest of all. While the CSSD registered Autumn elections to shake ODS rule - Czech CSSD leader Paroubek ...
Share of immigrants in Czech population growing-study, press ...
Czech CSSD committee nods to new vote of no confidence in govt ... some 1.8 million of them in 1997. it was 226,000 more last year. Last year, the CSSZ paid a total of more than 3,347,000 pensions, an increase by 282,000 against 1997. Apart from old-age pensions, the CSSZ has paid out pensions to disabled persons and to widows and widowers. The number of pensions exceeds the number of pensioners, as many people receive more kinds of pensions simultaneously. The figures reflect only the paying out of pensions in the Czech Republic. They include neither the pensions paid to pensioners living abroad, nor the pensions paid out by the ministries of defence, justice and interior. In 1997, the average monthly old-age pension was 5,148 crowns. It has increased to 8,747 in the past decade. Last year, most pensions stood at 8,000-9,000 crowns. The lowest pension set by the law was 2,340 crowns last year. This year it was increased to 2,470 crowns. According to a poll the STEM agency released in May, more than four-fifths of Czechs consider pensions inappropriately low. About three-fourths of respondents said pensions are not high enough to cover their holders' basic needs. Four-fifths of those polled said pensions do not enable elderly people's dignified life. The sum the Czech state annually spends on pensions has almost doubled in the past decade, from 153.6 billion crowns in 1998 to this year's planned 297.9 billion, plus extra 7 billion as a result of the planned extraordinary indexation of pensions in August. Apart from the increasing of pensions, the state's growing expenditures are also due to the prolongation of life and the rise in the number of elderly people. Ten years ago, the life expectancy in the Czech Republic was 71.13 and 78.6 years for men and women respectively. Last year it was 73.7 and 79.9, according to preliminary statistical data.
(Ceske Noviny)
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