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  • Retirement
    • Saving for Your Retirement
      • Why is planning for your retirement difficult?
      • Understanding Key Factors that may Impact your Retirement: Compounding Your Rate of Return on Your Pension Savings (2)
      • Understanding Key Factors that may Impact your Retirement: Inflation (1)
      • What are Private Pension Retirement Products?
        • Buying Private Pension Retirement Products
        • Obligations of your Private Pension Retirement Product’s Provider
        • Managing Risk in a Private Pension Retirement Product
    • Your Social Security Pension
      • What is the Social Security contribution scheme?
        • Social Security Contributions
        • The Contributory Retirement Pension
        • Widows / Survivors Pensions
        • Invalidity Pension
        • Retirement Pension? Age Pension? Service Pension? Second Pension? Third Pension? Let us define
        • “Self-Employed” as defined in the Social Security Act
        • Pension payment dates for 2021
        • The Guaranteed National Minimum Level ( GNML) of Pension
        • The Cost of Living Allowance: How it affects your income and your pension rate.
      • Finding out what your Pension Income is on Retirement
      • Maltese People Working Abroad and Third Country Nationals Working In Malta
        • Maltese people paying social security contributions in Malta while working abroad
        • What are my Social Security Pension Rights as a Third Country National Citizen Working in Malta
      • Gaps in your pension contributions
        • How you can fill gaps in your pension contributions
        • Right to credits for the calculation of your pension income
        • Child credits for child rearing
        • Study Credits
      • How you can boost your pension income if you work beyond 61 years
        • The Pensions % Increase Measure
        • Employment beyond Pension age – Age 65
      • Grants and Bonuses
        • Senior Citizen Grant
        • Deficiency Contributory Bonus
        • Government Bonuses
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Daily Archives: March 9, 2023

How to reduce and handle living costs: an Interview with Petra Ellul Mercer

Planning & BudgetingBy ĠEMMA TeamMarch 9, 20231 Comment

The cost of day-to-day living can be stressful. Housing, utilities, and essential expenses add up quickly but there are ways and means to handle your living costs better and make your finances more manageable. We approached Petra Ellul Mercer, Financial Capability Executive at GEMMA to explore practical options and tools needed to achieve financial stability.…

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