Pension or work? Both options are possible at the same time — Journal E

• A working old-age pensioner is not entitled to a tax-free amount and therefore pays a higher tax.
• An early pensioner can only work on an agreement with an annual income of up to 2,400 euros.
• A retired entrepreneur must guard his income in order not to pay social security contributions.

How to survive only on pension? This dilemma is solved every year not only by people who earned money as employees, but also by many former or still active entrepreneurs.

Since pensions are not high, the solution is the possibility to work while receiving a pension.

According to data from the Social Insurance Company, the number of working pensioners – employees, contract workers and SZČO – grows every year. While in 2021 more of them worked 149 thousandit was the next year 154 thousand. In March of this year, in addition to the pension, it also received a salary or had income from business 156 thousand people, which is almost 14 percent of over 1,118,000 pensioners.

A pensioner as a regular employee

According to the Social Insurance Company, as of December last year, more than 75,000 people were working and receiving old-age pensions. The law does not prevent regular old-age pensioners from being employed even after the pension has been granted. They do not have to report anything to the Social Insurance Company if they get sick, they receive a pension and sickness benefits.

If the old-age pensioner is employed on a permanent employment contract, the employer from