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Austria: Pension rules changed

The Austrian parliament has recently adopted government proposals amending the legislation on calculating state pensions for workers with a long service record and for those who retire early.

A series of public pension reforms introduced over 2000–04 (EER 377 p.34) raised the normal retirement age, ultimately to 65 for both women and men.