Austria offers three different family benefits. Child benefit, tax bonus and tax allowance carechildcare allowance. They are for permanent residents of Austria, but you only need to pay tax there to qualify for any of them.
At a certain age, there comes a time when a person can no longer manage basic tasks on his or her own and needs care. This is usually financially demanding for them and their loved ones. However, there is the possibility of using allowances to help with the costs.
Labour offices are as important as health and social insurance institutions. They work in every European Union country. And while their activities are largely the same, there are significant differences from country to country.
Retirement has been a difficult topic for the EU over the last 50 years. The main reasons are the demographic crisis, the ageing population and inflation. However, a supplementary pension could solve this problem. It has never been easier with the new pan-European personal pension, no matter how many EU countries you have lived in or will live in.
Pay rises are no longer the only way how to motivate employees in today's working world. Attractive companies offer their employees all kinds of benefits, from flexible working hours to extra holidays and support for sports activities to the company phone or car for private use. Such employers are much more interesting for jobseekers.
If there is no response, there could be a demographic crisis. The Slovak government's response has been to continually increase tax relief for parents. This means that working on a Slovak employment contract has never been more profitable. Read more in the article.
Traveling abroad for work can be a great opportunity to learn new languages and experience foreign cultures. But you shouldn't forget about your pension plan either. Find out what you need to do to retire if you have worked in different countries.
Austria will reimburse the family allowances owed to foreign nannies. This applies to female employees from several countries who commute here for work. The European Court of Justice has ruled. The payment process has been automatic since the beginning of August, based on data from the Austrian tax office. If the tax office has outdated data, you must apply for a top-up electronically via the portal used to communicate with the office.
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