DEPUTY Prime Minister Borwornsak Uwanno today (Nov. 3) denied the government is moving to raise the retirement age for general civil servants from 60 to 70 as has been rumoured with this likely going up to 65, Naewna and Thai Rath newspapers said.
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has conducted a study on extending the retirement age to 65 and Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is interested in this issue and is studying it as several factors must be considered before taking this step.
Anutin has also clearly mentioned that he intends for this coalition government to usher in this key change.
However there was no mention of extending general civil servants’ retirement age to 70, Borwornsak said, while pointing out that it has already been raised for judges and prosecutors to 70 years with professors too seeing an extension from 65 to 70 years.
“We are talking about pushing up the retirement of general civil servants to 65, but other civil servants and police are not included,” he said.
“This issue has significant impacts, particularly lower birth rates and higher death tolls, the budget, pensions and retirement benefits. It also affects government department heads and new civil servants.”
The Civil Service Commission is studying this major change in collaboration with the Comptroller General’s Department and the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC).
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Deputy Prime Minister Borwornsak Uwanno. Photo – Thai Rath
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