Social affairs minister Henk Kamp has asked the government’s macro-economic advisory bureau to assess the likely impact of the new pension deal sealed between unions and employers last week.

The CPB will look at ‘how the risks, the pros and the cons of the deal are divided up between the different generations’, Kamp told MPs.
The minister hopes the research will be completed by February next year, which will give enough time to introduce new legislation during 2012.
However, Kamp hopes to get agreement for the rise in the state pension age from 65 to 66 by 2020 before the summer parliamentary recess this year.
That increase is separate from the wide-ranging reforms reached by the unions and employers last week. Their plan covers a further rise to 67 and includes reforming the corporate pension sector as well.