These women are especially dependent on equal treatment in social security schemes.

Why should a private pension fund be more viable than a state social security scheme?

However, we believe that social security schemes and the minimum wage should be determined at a national level.

Members are not based abroad, and should belong to the social security schemes which apply in their home countries.

Another amendment is aimed at making it possible for women taking part in social security schemes to have access to their pension rights.

One example is the necessity of economic migrants having access, following their departure, to the money paid by them into European social security schemes.

We too note with concern the ageing of the population, the rising costs of social security schemes and the changes in family life.

They can be summed up as follows: including atypical and part-time working in this social security scheme.

The income of social security schemes are traditionally divided along the following categories:

National Insurance is a government-operated social security scheme.

There has been no regression on the status quo: all persons covered by social security schemes are now included – not just paid workers.

Repayment cannot be claimed from a person who is in receipt of income support or family credit under the social security scheme (s17(9)).

We need a speedy revision of Regulation 1408/71 on the coordination of social security schemes.

The issue before us is specifically supplementary pension schemes and not public social security schemes.

EU law does not limit the power of Member States to organise their own social security schemes.

The report will assist with the simplification of regulations concerning social security schemes across the EU.

We are opposed to unnecessary bureaucracy and believe quite unequivocally that national social security schemes can and should be respected.

About 100,000 people were affected by this change, half of whom were receiving Supplementary Benefit under the social security scheme.

The report supports the technical amendments proposed by the Commission to update the regulations relating to the coordination of social security schemes for migrant workers.

The effects of the national debt, and similarly of social security schemes (transferring resources between the two generations), are equally governed by the savings behaviour.

I think that to individualize social security schemes in this way would in fact be detrimental to the cohesion and harmonious development of society.

Application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons and to members of their families moving within the Community (debate)

You may have to contribute to another country's social security scheme or you may have to continue paying UK National Insurance.

Experience shows that, where assisting spouses have to take it upon themselves and apply to join a social security scheme, the large majority of them do not do so.

It seems to me, however, that the Commission must be cautioned against any attempt to downgrade our social security schemes in the name of so-called European harmonization.