Přehled o publikaci

Indexation of Czech public pensions is not comprehensible already because the basic and percentage pension assessments are indexed separately and the indexation rate of the percentage assessment depends on indexation of the basic assessment. This incomprehensibility is a cause of attempts to make the indexation flat, which is in contradiction to the principle of equivalence in insurance-based systems. Such tendencies show evident efforts to correct the level of solidarity contained in new pension entitlements via pension indexation. The goal of the paper is to propose a variant comprehensible system of indexation of Czech old age pensions, preferably related to possible alternatives of pension reform, both total and partial, related only or mainly to the indexation of pensions. In that process, we will build upon foreign knowledge and research work regarding pensions and related benefits, especially the means-tested housing benefit. We will also deal with potential feedback of pension indexation for the future shape of the existing Czech system of public pensions.