The fresh retirement age in Poland and the revolution in pensions. ZUS confirms the decision. Experts say change is inevitable. What is the retirement age in Poland 2026?

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Will there be a fresh higher retirement age in Poland? Raising the retirement age to 67 years for both women and men returns to public debate. Economists from the Citizens' improvement Forum (FOR) and the Warsaw Enterprise Institute (WEI) are informing that without deep reforms of public finances, the budget deficit will deepen. In the published study on the "Budżetowy SOS", the current pension strategy is uneven, costly and unsustainable in the long term. What does the government and ZUS say?