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On Thursday, the Federal Court will decide in public consultation whether to repeat the ballot to increase the women's retirement age.
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- The Federal Court will decide in a public meeting this Thursday whether the AHV vote from September 2022 is valid or whether it will be repealed.
- The question is whether women will have to work until the age of 65 in the future and whether the AHV will receive additional billions from VAT.
- The people narrowly approved increasing the women's retirement age to 65.
- According to the complaint, dies due to incorrect numbers.
The people narrowly approved the increase in the women's retirement age on September 25, 2022 at 65 a.m. According to the complaint, dies due to incorrect numbers.
So that the voting public did not decide with knowledge of the facts, it is due to the voting complaints of the Greens and the SP women. The figures given in the voting booklet are based on the wrong expenditure forecast for the AHV and were therefore misleading.
The parties are calling for the narrow result of 50.6 percent approval of the AHV 21 proposal to be deleted and for the ballot to be repeated.
According to the leaders' complaint, the incorrect forecast was the decisive factor in the population agreeing to increase the women's retirement age from 64 to 65 years. The overly pessimistic figures would have cost the women a year of pension.
Expenses revised downwards
The Federal Social Insurance Office (BSV) announced on August 6th that it had incorrectly calculated the AHV's financial prospects. This led to an inaccurately high expenditure forecast. This information was found both in the voting documents for September 2022 and in those for the vote on the 13th AHV pension on March 5th of this year.
As a result, after the vote, AHV spending for 2033 had to be revised downwards by four billion francs. After more precise calculations, there was still a downward correction of 2.5 billion. Suddenly the AHV is in a better financial position than shown in the voting documents.
Substitute judges in the men's panel
Interior Minister Elisabeth Baume-Schneider initiated an administrative investigation after the calculation error became known. The investigation report states that the inflated figures for the AHV financial perspective are not based on any calculation errors. Rather, two functions had driven up the AHV expenditure in the externally validated calculation program for the AHV financial perspective and thus led to implausible forecasts in the long-term perspective of over ten years.
BSV director Stéphane Rossini will step down at the end of June 2025. The former Valais SP National Councilor took office at the end of 2019.
Two substitute judges will take part in the public consultation of the first public law department of the Federal Court in Lausanne on Thursday. The normal composition of the committee consists only of men. However, the Federal Court regulations stipulate that “members of both sexes may be members of the judicial body if the nature of the legal dispute appears to justify this.”
