Pensions: this element of the "Easter Agreement", unnoticed, worries seniors

The fact that high civil servants' pensions and lower pensions are being discussed is a pure "need debate", civil servants criticise. Experts classify this.

The delay in indexing, three months after the exceedance of the index-pivot rather than the following month, also applies to pensions. ...

Brussels 16/04/2025 11:28 (BELGA) The delay in indexing, three months after the exceedance of the index-pivot rather than the following month, also applies to pensions. This element of the "Easter Agreement", which has gone unnoticed, worries seniors. The federal government had decided that the indexing of social benefits, after exceeding the index-pivot, would be carried out with two months of delay on the current system. Rather than indexing t…

Is it because it is a holiday period? Or because the content is at most about a few adjustments? The federal government's Easter agreement caused little commotion in the media. Perhaps the fact that the coalition partners do not want to wage major ideological wars plays a role. In these uncertain economic times, the Arizona team is not seen as a voluntarist government, but as a marriage of convenience. Anyone who reads the text of the Easter agr…

11:21 Civil servant salaries, pensions and benefits will not be indexed for three months, the federal government has decided. According to the senior citizens' association OKRA, this delay will cost a pensioner...

The federal government plans to index social benefits only three months after the pivot index is exceeded. Minister Anneleen Van Bossuyt (N-VA) announced this in the House of Representatives last month. This also applies to pensions, government sources confirm. Senior citizens' association OKRA reacts with concern.