Improvements were made to invalidity and old-age pension provision for the unemployed, who (from 1977 onwards) were technically insured free of charge under the old-age pension and invalidity scheme.
Other social rights include the right to health care, the right to old-age pension, and the right to disability benefits (articles 35, 37; 1992:33, 34).
However, a country's tax laws and/or state old-age pension rules usually mean that in a given country a certain age is thought of as the standard retirement age.
Although pensioners accounted for only 18% of all people on social welfare, the old-age pension accounted for the largest proportion of grant expenditure at 39%.