The Belgian Parliament’s Social Affairs Committee on Tuesday approved a bill that would increase the proportional pensions of self-employed persons beyond indexation.
The text, prepared by the Minister for the Self-Employed, David Clarinval, incorporates some of the adjustments of the 2023-2024 welfare package, the minister said in a statement.
Proportional pensions are pensions calculated on the basis of the professional income of the self-employed person, as opposed to the minimum pension.
Pensions that take effect from 1 July 2023 will see a 1.7% increase in the pension gain obtained in the 1984 – 2020 career years and a 1.7% increase in the pension gain obtained for the pre-1984 lump-sum career years.
These increases are complementary to the automatic indexation and the one already applied when the distribution of the 2021-2022 welfare package was implemented.
“With this decision, we are significantly increasing the future pensions of the self-employed,” Minister Clarinval said.
“This new increase is in addition to the adjustment of the previous welfare envelope and the abolition of the correction coefficient voted since the beginning of the legislature,” he explained.
