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06.06.2025

Financing Structure of Pension Insurance in Austria

WIFO Research Brief: Between Insurance and Social Policy
Around 73 percent of the expenditure for old-age provision under the statutory pension insurance scheme is financed by contributions from active employees and around 27 percent by funds from the federal budget. On the one hand, this ties up around 13 percent of the federal budget. On the other hand, these budget funds are used to cover the socio-political functions assigned to the pension system, such as protection against poverty in old age, consideration of child-raising periods, provision for surviving dependants and much more.

"Understanding the current, multi-layered financing structure is a key prerequisite for developing well-founded concepts for the future design and optimisation of financing", says Christine Mayrhuber, Deputy Director of WIFO and Chair of the Pension Security Commission, in her latest WIFO Research Brief.

Publications

WIFO Research Briefs
06.06.2025
Financing Structure of Pension Insurance in Austria
Between Insurance and Social Policy
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Finalization: June 2025
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Please contact

Mag. Christine Mayrhuber
Mag. Christine Mayrhuber
Labour Economics, Income and Social Security
+43 1 798 26 01 - 269 christine.mayrhuber@wifo.ac.at

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