{"id":428992,"date":"2025-06-06T11:34:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T09:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/06\/06\/ue-22-milioni-pensionati-lavoratori\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T13:01:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:01:36","slug":"2-2-million-working-pensioners-in-the-eu-with-italy-leading-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/06\/06\/2-2-million-working-pensioners-in-the-eu-with-italy-leading-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"2.2 million working pensioners in the EU, with Italy leading the way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Living to work — <\/strong>a condition that applies to virtually everyone in the European Union. There is no Member State where\u00a0men and women continue to work\u00a0after reaching retirement age. <\/strong>Eurostat data show that mainly self-employed men and women continue to work after receiving their pension checks<\/span>. In 2023, more than half of all VAT-registered workers\u00a0(56.4 percent)\u00a0<\/strong>were still working even though their age and years of contribution\u00a0allowed them to retire. Practically, the\u00a0EU boasted almost 2.2 million working pensioners.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The European Statistical Institute<\/a> does not explain why those who could enjoy life instead continue with the same old routine. For some, it could be a personal passion for work; for others, however, it could be the consequence of an unfavorable pension situation due to the lack\u00a0of standard employment contracts — making it a necessity. What is certain is that the question of worker-pensioners arises especially in\u00a0Sweden (98.4 percent), Finland (88 percent), and Ireland (87.7 percent).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In absolute terms, however, Italy ranks first<\/strong>\u00a0for the\u00a0number of people who leave the labor market without ever really leaving it. About 394,500 people give up\u00a0their right to stop working and instead continue to do so after having worked all their lives. Even\u00a0in the Italian case,\u00a0data and points for reflection raise the questions about the functioning of a system that is probably suffering from the\u00a0high number of atypical contracts and\u00a0VAT-registered\u00a0workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eurostat data puts the spotlight on the VAT system: self-employed people who do not stop working<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":428990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[27047,31425,29417,27722,31426,31424,27875,27164,29574,26444],"class_list":["post-428992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-eu-en","tag-eurostat-en-2","tag-eurostat-figures","tag-italy-en-2","tag-labour-market-en","tag-pensioners","tag-pensions-in","tag-seniors-en","tag-vat-en","tag-work-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428992"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429012,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428992\/revisions\/429012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}