Poland to go ahead with employer-sponsored pension plans
PR dla Zagranicy
Grzegorz Siwicki
28.08.2018 15:00
Poland’s government on Tuesday adopted a plan to go ahead with voluntary, employer-sponsored pension programmes as a new option for citizens to save for retirement.
PM Mateusz Morawiecki (right) and Finance Minister Teresa Czerwińska brief reporters after a Cabinet meeting in Warsaw on Tuesday. Photo: PAP/Radek Pietruszka
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told a news conference after a Cabinet meeting that the new Employee Capital Pension System (PPK) would be another social assistance programme launched by his conservative government to ensure the financial security of families.
Under the new system, employers would contribute the equivalent of at least 1.5 percent of employees' gross wages to individual retirement savings accounts every month.
Employees would in most cases be required to contribute no less than 2 percent of their gross monthly wages, and the government would make a supplementary contribution of PLN 240 every year, in addition to a one-off welcome payment of PLN 250.
The new system would take effect in stages beginning next year and be fully up and running nationwide by January 1, 2021.
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Source: IAR/PAP
payment of 250 zloty ($73.30)—a so-called welcome contribution