Frontiers in Public Health (Sep 2016)
Legal Framework and Retirement Policies in Serbia from 1990 to 2016 – Gendered Perspective
Abstract
Retirement policy is an unavoidable factor for the economic and social stability of the state. In our country, Serbia, the total number of pensioners in 2015 was almost 1.8 million which is higher in comparison to the time period from 2002 – 2014. According to increase number of pensioners, pension reforms is a crucial step of economic stability for less developed country such as Serbia. The first step on this question in Serbia was mad in 2001 and this changes was referred to raise in the retirement age. Next step has become in 2003 and involved wider ranges of changes than the previous step. Another changes on this field was followed by 2005 and it was related to age limit for retirement which was supposed to increase for six months each year during the period from 2008 – 2011 while another change was a gradual pension adjustment. The last step on this road of pension reforms in Serbia has become with adopted Law on Pension and Disability Insurance that entered into force in January 2015 when age limit for retirement was extended for both gender, whereby it is clear that the aim of this measure is to equalize years of service for genders by 2023 and age limit by 2032 when 65 years will been age limit.
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