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Pensions, family and welfare: what each party thinks

4 questions, 28 party positions and 4 complete disagreements (how they are assigned).

What each party proposes on this issue

A summary of their positions on the questions in this issue, based on their manifestos, votes and statements. Details and sources, question by question, below.

Reformierakond

Agrees: “Healthcare should rely more on people's own responsibility, for example through higher patient co-payments”

Disagrees: “Pensions should rise faster, even if taxes have to go up to pay for it”; “Families with three or more children should receive much larger benefits than families with one or two children”

In between: “University education should be free for all students”

EKRE

Disagrees: “Healthcare should rely more on people's own responsibility, for example through higher patient co-payments”

In between: “Pensions should rise faster, even if taxes have to go up to pay for it”; “Families with three or more children should receive much larger benefits than families with one or two children”; “University education should be free for all students”

Keskerakond

Agrees: “Pensions should rise faster, even if taxes have to go up to pay for it”; “Families with three or more children should receive much larger benefits than families with one or two children”; “University education should be free for all students”

Disagrees: “Healthcare should rely more on people's own responsibility, for example through higher patient co-payments”

Eesti 200

Disagrees: “Pensions should rise faster, even if taxes have to go up to pay for it”; “Families with three or more children should receive much larger benefits than families with one or two children”; “Healthcare should rely more on people's own responsibility, for example through higher patient co-payments”; “University education should be free for all students”

SDE

Agrees: “Pensions should rise faster, even if taxes have to go up to pay for it”; “University education should be free for all students”

Disagrees: “Families with three or more children should receive much larger benefits than families with one or two children”; “Healthcare should rely more on people's own responsibility, for example through higher patient co-payments”

Isamaa

Agrees: “Families with three or more children should receive much larger benefits than families with one or two children”; “University education should be free for all students”

Disagrees: “Pensions should rise faster, even if taxes have to go up to pay for it”

In between: “Healthcare should rely more on people's own responsibility, for example through higher patient co-payments”

Parempoolsed

Agrees: “Healthcare should rely more on people's own responsibility, for example through higher patient co-payments”

Disagrees: “Pensions should rise faster, even if taxes have to go up to pay for it”; “Families with three or more children should receive much larger benefits than families with one or two children”; “University education should be free for all students”

Pensions should rise faster, even if taxes have to go up to pay for it.

State pensions rise every year by a formula that takes into account price rises and social tax revenue. Some parties propose extra increases on top of that formula.

Of the 7 parties with a position on this question: 2 in favour, 1 in between and 4 against.

Families with three or more children should receive much larger benefits than families with one or two children.

In 2024 the government cut the large-family allowance, which had been raised sharply in 2022. Some parties want to restore it to boost the birth rate; others prefer to share benefits equally among all children.

Of the 7 parties with a position on this question: 2 in favour, 1 in between and 4 against.

Healthcare should rely more on people's own responsibility, for example through higher patient co-payments.

Public healthcare is funded mainly by the social tax on workers, and the Health Insurance Fund (Tervisekassa) is running a deficit. One option is for patients to pay more; another is for the state to put in more money.

Of the 7 parties with a position on this question: 2 in favour, 1 in between and 4 against.

University education should be free for all students.

Today public university education is free for full-time students on Estonian-language programmes; in other cases universities can charge tuition fees.

Of the 7 parties with a position on this question: 3 in favour, 2 in between and 2 against.

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