Prime Minister aims to halt automatic increase in retirement age

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen wants to revise the so-called welfare agreement so that the retirement age for Danes does not rise as much.

This is revealed in an interview with the Prime Minister on Berlingske.dk.

The welfare agreement was entered into by the former government (Venstre and De Konservative) with the Social Democrats, the Danish People’s Party, and the Radical Left and focused on future prosperity, welfare, and investments.

One of the areas in the agreement involved adjusting the opportunity to retire from the workforce, gradually increasing the retirement and pension age. It is currently expected that the retirement age in 2050 will be 72 years.

However, the Social Democratic Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen now wants to change this. She believes that while the retirement age should not remain unchanged, any increase should be made “mild and fair.”

Next year, the Parliament will vote on raising the retirement age to 70 by 2040.

But, this will be the last time the Social Democrats vote to increase the retirement age automatically under the Welfare Agreement, according to Mette Frederiksen.

“The automatic increase in retirement age that is happening right now, we no longer believe in. In our view, you can’t just keep saying that people should work one year longer – and therefore, our clear message is that the agreement needs to be renegotiated,” says Mette Frederiksen.