5 demonstrators reveal how much pension they risk losing: “Working 12 years longer and 600 euros net less? I don’t agree with that”

There were at least 30,000 of them, the pension demonstrators in Brussels. Not only teachers, but also firefighters and train drivers stopped work to protest against a possible pension reform. But how much net pension do they actually receive? How much does a starting teacher earn? And what about the weekend allowances of NMBS staff, which would also be scrapped? Our reporter mixed among the demonstrators.

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