2019-03-28

Added · Updated

Company Pension Act (Betriebspensionsgesetz; BPG)

The Austrian federal legislature enacted this act to legally secure employer-funded old-age, invalidity, and survivors’ pension commitments that supplement statutory social insurance. It mandates that such guarantees be channeled through regulated Pensionskassen, occupational group insurance, or direct payment schemes, while explicitly prohibiting the assignment, pledging, or attachment of accrued pension expectancies. The legislation establishes strict vesting timelines, calculates protected vested amounts based on actuarial premium reserves, and grants terminated employees multiple options to transfer or convert their accrued benefits to new pension providers or foreign institutions.

Finanzmarktaufsicht logo

Austria

Finanzmarktaufsicht

Click to view full text

More like this from FMA

FMA published 1 document in the last 30 days. We email you each new one the day it's published.

Topics
Share