NATIONAL LABOUR MARKET POLICIES
Basic Information Reports
2.5.2.1.Special support
Special transfer benefits were established as early as the 1960s within the framework of the Special Support Act (SUG) in order to enhance the material security of persons employed in economic sectors which were particularly affected by closures or cutbacks due to changes on international markets or European integration and who were impossible to place in suitable employment. Further aims were to relieve the burden on the labour market and to improve the employment prospects of younger workers. At present, this type of regulation applies only to former employees of mining enterprises; these are entitled to a benefit equal to their future disability or miners' pension, which they may draw fourteen times annually after reaching age 52, provided that
- they were employed for at least 10 years in mining enterprises which consisted of one production unit per location and
- they contributed to pension insurance for 180 months.
Income from other sources is calculable.
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