Tag: economic crisis on pension benefits

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The brief’s key findings are: The economic crisis has posed a ‘stress test’ for the automatic benefit adjustments in Sweden’s pension system. Slow wage growth and a collapse in equity values triggered a first-time benefit cut for 2010. Policymakers have revised the automatic adjustments, however, to moderate the decline. Thus, even automatic adjustments may b…