Lowering of the age limit

You may also claim old-age pension at a lower age:

• on account of the care you provided to each child (your own or adopted) in their first year of life, if the child is a citizen of Slovenia, or a EU/EEA Member State (one child = 6 months, two children = 16 months, three children = 26 months, four children = 36 months, five or more children = 48 months).

You can claim a lowering of the age limit from 60 years if you have completed 40 years of pensionable service without purchase before the age of 60, but not to below 58 years for a man, or 56 years for a woman.

You may also claim a lowering of the age limit from 65 years if you have completed 38 years of pensionable service without purchase, but not to below 61 years.

• on account of serving compulsory military service, for two-thirds of the actual duration (this lowering is only applicable to men)

You can claim a lowering of the age limit from 60 years if you have completed 40 years of pensionable service without purchase before the age of 60, but not to below 58 years.

Provided that you have completed 38 years of pensionable service without purchase, the age limit of 65 years may also be lowered on this basis, but not to below 63 years.

• on account of joining compulsory pension and disability insurance before the age of 18

If you have completed 40 years of pensionable service without purchase before the age of 60, you can claim a lowering of the age limit from 60, but not to below 58 years for men, or 57 years for women.

• on account of working in jobs for which you qualify for an insurance period with bonus

You may claim this lowering, which does not have a lower limit, if you:

complete 40 years of pensionable service without buy-back before the age of 60, or

complete 15 years of insurance period before the age of 65.

• on account of personal circumstances relating to a medical condition as a result of which you qualify for an insurance period with bonus up to 31 December 1999, and subsequently to a calculation period added to that period

You may claim this lowering if you:

• have completed 40 years of pensionable service without purchase before the age of 60, or
• have completed 15 years of insurance period before the age of 65.

You can also claim a lowering of the old-age pension age on several grounds:

• if you have completed 40 years of pensionable service without purchase before the age of 60 and several grounds apply for the lowering of the age limit, the lowering is taken into account as follows:

women (age of 60 lowered to not below 57)

first because of caring for a child,

then on account of joining the compulsory insurance scheme before the age of 18;

men (age of 60 lowered to not below 58)

first on account of joining the compulsory insurance scheme before the age of 18;

then because of caring for a child,

and last on account of serving compulsory military service.

• if you have completed 38 years of pensionable service without purchase before the age of 65 and several grounds apply for the lowering of the age limit (men), the lowering is taken into account as follows:

women on account of caring for a child, age of 65 lowered to not below 61.

men age of 65 lowered to not below 63:

first because of caring for a child,

then on account of serving compulsory military service.

If you qualify for an insurance period with bonus or a calculation period due to personal circumstances, this lowering of the age limit has priority.

This is followed by a lowering of the age limit on other bases (caring for a child, serving compulsory military service, or joining compulsory insurance before the age of 18), but not below the respective minimum possible ages .

This means that by applying the first possible ground for the lowering of the age limit, the latter may already be lowered to the maximum extent, so that no further lowering on any of the other grounds is possible.