September 11, 2024

Increase in the retirement age from 2025: what are the implications for your supplementary personnel schemes?

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On 1 January 2025, the statutory retirement age in Belgium will rise from 65 to 66. Five years after that, it will be 67. How do these changes affect your company’s supplementary personnel schemes? A quick update.

Your company’s current schemes for supplementary pensions and life, work incapacity and health care insurance have been drawn up on the basis of the current retirement age of 65. As this age limit is set to be increased, it is advisable to adapt your schemes to the new retirement age where necessary.

How will this work in practice?

We are currently looking at what adjustments need to be made to the different schemes, in consultation with the various insurers. Once this is clear, we will provide a new update.

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