Lithuania’s Second-Pillar Exits Expose Pension Saving Gap
About 40 percent of participants in Lithuania’s second-pillar pension saving system left the scheme in the first quarter of 2026. The figure does not by itself show that residents have given up on preparing for retirement, but it raises a practical question: will the returned money become part of a long-term plan, or be absorbed into short-term spending? This international adaptation is based on a BNS-published comment by Giedrius Rimša, president of the Lithuanian Life Insurance Companies Association, and survey...
