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Swedish pension transition provisions

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The Swedish Pensions Agency’s description of the national pension system says that people born from 1938 through 1953 are covered by special transition rules. Their pensions combine shares calculated under the old and new systems, with a larger old-system share for earlier birth years.

An additional guarantee protects the supplementary pension earned through 1994, when the reform was agreed in principle. The rules are a clear example of a reform whose burdens vary by birth cohort and which protects already accrued positions.

They do not by themselves prove electoral capture. Reliance interests, administrative transition, and objections to retrospective loss are alternative reasons for protecting older cohorts. Boomers and democracy uses the provisions as evidence of the distributive pattern while keeping the causal interpretation open.

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