Focus on Women

The pension insurance programme takes care of citizens in the case of old age, disability or loss of breadwinner. Provided within this programme as of 1 January 1996 (Social Security Act No. 155/1995 Coll.) are old-age, disability (full and partial), widows', widowers', and orphans' pensions. According to the Act, wives’ pensions, pensions for long-term service, social pensions, pensions granted before 1 January 1957 are provided as either disability or old-age pensions.

The Czech statistical service uses outputs from the informa-tion systems run by (i) the Czech Social Security Administration (information on sickness insurance benefits, pensions actually paid, pension insurance benefits, average monthly level of newly granted pensions, average pensions - all except data for the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice).


Pensions and pension insurance benefits paid

The tables list pensions paid in 1995 under Act No. 100/1988 Coll., on Pension Insurance as last amended and since 1996 under Act No. 155/1995 Coll., on Pension Insurance.


Average monthly level of pensions

Shown are data on pensioners who receive only basic ("solo") pensions, such as old-age, disability, widows' and widowers’ pensions, from which the average level of solo-pensions is calculated. Listed are also combined widows' and widower’s pensions where the amounts of both pensions paid are added up (in compliance with Act No. 100/1988 Coll., before 1996; and Act No. 155/1995 Coll., since 1996). The amounts of money paid to the helpless and in the form of child benefits paid to pensioners looking after children are excluded. Included in the pensions since 1 December 1994 has been the government compensa-tion benefit which is now their integral part. The average monthly level of the pensions paid is their average level per pensioner in the reference month, as expressed by the following formula:

A = B / C

where A is the average monthly level of the pensions paid,

B is the sum of the amounts of pensions provided accord-ing to pension sheets in the last month of the reference period,

C is the number of pensions paid.

The average level of pensions as at 31 December of the reference year is thus the average level of pension paid per pensioner.

The pensioner is included in that type of social security for which he/she satisfies the requirements for granting pension (in compliance with Act No. 100/1988 Coll., before 1996; Act No. 155/1995 Coll., since 1996).

The figures released in the Statistical Yearbooks of the former Czechoslovak Federal Republic include rises in pensions paid to the helpless and as child benefits to pensioners looking after children, which is why they are not comparable with those presented in the Statistical Yearbooks of the Czech Republic.

Number and average level of new pensions granted: by type, by sex

Listed are pensions provided in accordance with Act No. 155/1995 Coll., on Pension Insurance (except for proportional old-age pensions) or relevant provisions of preceding regulations:

full old-age pension (Section 29 (a))
proportional old-age pension (Section 26, Act No. 100/1988 Coll.; Section 29 (b), Act No. 155/1995 Coll.)
early old-age pension - by 2 years (Section 30)
early old-age pension - by 3 years (Section 31)
full disability pension (Section 38)
full disability pension (the so-called disability from young days) (Section 42)
partial disability pension (Section 43)
widow’s pension (Section 49 (1))
widower’s pension (Section 49 (2))
orphan’s pension (Section 52).