become eligible to retire

retirement credits | pension credits

attainment of retirement age | reaching retirement age

early retirement eligibility service

to acquire rights in the trade mark

to acquire a right

to acquire pension rights

accrued benefit

pensionable remuneration

(b) the amount determined by the Minister as having being paid into the Superannuation Account and the Public Service Pension Fund in respect of that employee and in respect of which that employee is or may become entitled to a benefit under this Part or Part III,

The new rules will help to remove current obstacles to free movement, such as the requirement for very long periods of employment to acquire these rights or the risk of the rights being lost when leaving a pension scheme.

15. Stresses that implementing structural reforms aimed at increasing the employment rate and enabling people to work until the statutory retirement age, thus reducing the economic dependency ratio, is paramount to generating the tax revenues and social and pension premiums needed to consolidate Member State budgets and to fund adequate, safe and sustainable pension schemes; stresses that these reforms must be carried out in a transparent way that allows people to anticipate in a timely way any effects that these reforms may entail; points to the risk that unemployment and low-wage, part-time and a-typical employment may result in only ...[+++] partial pension entitlements, making poverty more prevalent in old age;

M. whereas gender differences in socio-economic status are largely rooted in the traditional gender division of roles, where men are considered to bear the primary responsibility for breadwinning and women for unpaid housework and family care, including wider family care, which has a huge impact on women's ability, compared with men's, to accumulate social security entitlements, for example for retirement, and consequently their situation in old age, particularly in the event of divorce, separation or being widowed,