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Benefits and Pensions Lag Behind
DR Nyheder Online
Denmark
August 2, 2005
More than 900,000 pensioners and unemployed persons are currently losing out to working people as their pensions and benefits lag further and further behind wages.
In the course of the past ten years, wages have increased 17 percent more than pensions and benefits.
Currently, the maximum unemployment benefit rate is 14,000 kroner a month, but if benefits had kept up with wages in the past decade it would have been 17,000 kroner.
The widening gap between wages on the one hand and benefits and pensions on the other hand has led to increasing inequality in Danish society, one of the economic wise men told Danish media this morning.
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