Dutch pensions policy is 'panic football', says former minister

Dutch pensions policy is 'panic football', says former minister

NETHERLANDS – Dutch pension funds are struggling with dangerously low coverage ratios and some 14 funds must cut pension benefits for members earlier than expected at the behest of the out-going minister for social affairs. Yet Willem Vermeend, social affairs minister from 2000-02, believes this is "panic football".

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