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