DenmarkDen danske økonomi og arbejdsmarkedet 8 · The Danish economy and labour market
The state pension acts (folkepensionslovene) of 1956 and 1964 changed who could get the state pension (folkepension). Who got the right to it?
In the exam (Danish)
Folkepensionslovene fra 1956 og 1964 ændrede, hvem der kunne få folkepension. Hvem fik ret til den?
- aAll elderly citizensAlle ældre borgereCorrect answer
- bOnly elderly people who were members of a trade unionKun ældre i en fagforening
- cOnly the poorest elderly peopleKun de fattigste ældre
Why?
With these acts, all elderly people got the right to the state pension. Before, the help was mainly for the poorest elderly people. At first, the amount still partly depended on your income.
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Source
Questions from past citizenship tests (danskogproever.dk), reproduced verbatim in Danish with the official answers by permission of the Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (SIRI), and our own practice questions on the facts of the study material “Læremateriale til Indfødsretsprøven” and on Danish values. The English translation and the explanations are ours, made with AI help; in the test the questions are asked in Danish. Current-affairs questions and questions whose official answer no longer holds have been left out. We are not affiliated with SIRI.
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