In Poland, the retirement age is presently 60 years for women and 65 years for men. This subject regularly returns to the public debate, especially in the context of demographic change and the labour marketplace situation. The proposals include both ideas of his harmonisation and differentiation depending on individual circumstances specified as... the number of children.
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Is there a fresh retirement age? It's about childless women.
The president has just received a proposal to amend the law. An anonymous petition assumes gradually expanding the retirement age of women and men, starting from raising it to 65 years of age for childless women. The aim is to address demographic problems, specified as the fall in birth rates. In July 2025 22.5 1000 children were born. For comparison, last year it was 23.3 thousand. 32 000 people died. During the year 170 000 people died more than they were born, which means a decrease in the population by 0.5 percent.
Today, women in Poland quit before men, even though they live on average 7.5 years longer. In the case of childless women, there are no social or biological conditions which would justify early termination of work
- quotes the content of the "Fact" document. The author added that the diverse retirement age for individual sexes is characteristic of the russian states, namely Russia, Moldova and Belarus.
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Increase of retirement age in Poland 2025. What does the government say?
In 2012, Donald Tusk's government decided to improvement the pension system, whose main premise was to gradually rise and align the retirement age of women and men to 67. Changes were to be introduced in stages. Men would scope a fresh retirement age in 2020 and women 2 decades later, in 2040. The improvement was explained, among others, by the prolonged life expectancy and the request to adapt the strategy to demographic realities. However, in 2016, the fresh authorities withdrew from this solution. The Government of Law and Justice reduced the retirement age back to 60 years for women and 65 for men, which is inactive in force today.
The alignment of retirement age in this group would be a first step towards a fair and rational pension strategy adapted to contemporary demographic and economical realities. Poland faces serious challenges: fast ageing of the population, the decline in birth rates and the number of people of working age as well as the expanding burden on the pension system. Political courage and foresight are needed, even if this means introducing unpopular changes, but essential for the stability, safety and prosperity of Poland
- wrote the petition author. less young people in the labour marketplace are little contributions, which may make it hard to pay benefits in the future. An ageing society means that people are getting more and little pensioners. The time to receive the benefits is besides extended due to the fact that we live longer than a fewer decades ago. With a worsening ratio of workers to pensioners, the state may be forced to rise the retirement age (for people to work longer and to receive benefits less) and to increase contributions, which means higher labour costs.
However, the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy reported that "proposals to rise retirement age are not a consequence to the problem of an ageing population". According to the government, "the current retirement age guarantees the aged a sense of security". Karol Nawrocki, on the another hand, already during the presidential campaign, declared that erstwhile he became President, he would never agree to increase the retirement age.
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