December 2022

Slovakia: Pension reforms — auto-enrolment and parental pensions

Employer Action Code: Act The government has approved amendments to the Social Insurance Law, with the primary aims of 1) increasing retirement savings in employees’ social security defined contribution (DC) privately managed accounts (i.e., the “second pillar”) through automatic enrolment and the use of default life cycle index (rather than bond-based guaranteed) investment funds, and 2) improving the sustainability of the social security defined benefit (DB) retirement program (i.e., the “first pillar”). The changes are effective January 1, 2023. Key details Changes...

September 2022

Pan-European Pension Product is now available in the first EU country

The European pension is now available to clients in Slovakia. It has a strict fee cap, is portable, and is bound by European legislation. Slovak fintech broker Finax is the first European company that became licensed to offer it. All residents of the European Union can open a pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP). It is not tied to employment or the place of work. Its goal is to provide the saver with an old-age income supplementing the state pension. Savers...

May 2017

Slovakia. Public finances long-term sustainability helped by Pension Reform

Slovakia’s public finances are heading towards long-term sustainability, RRZ President Ivan Šramko announced on May 3 when presenting its Report on Long-term Sustainability of Public Finance for 2016. Yet the government should not ease its targets and its consideration for potential risks. These include the ageing population and growing expenditures in the health-care sector, reads the RRZ report, as cited by the TASR newswire. The long-term sustainability of public finances in Slovakia posted a year-on-year improvement last year. “The state of...