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Glossary

a

  • Advance on maintenance payment
  • Active population

b

  • Birth or adoption grant
  • Benefit calculation rules

c

  • Child-care allowances
  • Child benefit

d

  • Defined-contribution (DC) schemes
  • Defined-benefit (DB) schemes
  • Deferred retirement
  • Death grant

e

  • Eligible dependants
  • Early retirement

f

  • Funded scheme
  • Financing principle

h

  • Hybrid schemes

i

  • Informal care
  • Indexation

l

  • Long-term care

m

  • Mixed benefits
  • Minimum pension
  • Means test
  • Maximum pension
  • Maternity allowances
  • Management of funding

n

  • Notionally defined-contribution (NDC) schemes

p

  • Points schemes
  • Pay-as-you-go (PAYG)
  • Periods credited or treated as contributory
  • Partial/temporary unemployment
  • Partial retirement
  • Parental leave and benefit

q

  • Qualifying period

r

  • Redemption

s

  • Schemes in transition

t

  • Tax concessions

u

  • Unfunded scheme

w

  • Waiting period

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