Labor Minister Simona Bucura-Oprescu said on Saturday that a mother raising a child under the age of 16 will have the pension age reduced by six months for each child, and if she has two children, she will benefit from a pension age reduction of one year and so on, up to seven children, for whom you will have a reduction in the retirement age of three years and six months.

• “There are two new elements in the new law, both of which are very important. The first of them, the period of raising a child, maternity leave is considered insurance experience. Regardless of whether this leave is given to the mother or the father, it is a period of payment of contributions, which is very important, because we do not penalize mothers for the time they stayed with their children,” said Simona Bucura-Oprescu, answering questions on the CNN channel Antena 3 about it. benefits in the new law and how the retirement age for women with children is reduced.

She noted that a woman raising a child up to 16 years of age will have her retirement age reduced by six months for each child.

• “The second very important element is the lowering of the retirement age. A mother who raises a child up to the age of 16 or adopts a child or has an adopted child whom she cares for up to the age of 14, the pension age is reduced by six months for each child. That is, if you have one child that you are raising, then your retirement age will be reduced by six months, if you have two children that you are raising, then the retirement age will be reduced by one year, and so on. .to the number of seven children, for whom you will have a reduction of three years and six months upon retirement,” explained the Minister of Labor.

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