Posted on 02/22/2022 10:56:11 AM PST by nickcarraway
A MAN ‘becomes’ a woman to cleverly exploit a pension loophole in Lucerne, Switzerland and retire one year earlier and receive even more lavish benefits – and all it takes is 75 francs (€72).
Thanks to a new law introduced on January 1, Swiss citizens – with the “intimate conviction” that they do not belong to the sex – are allowed to change their sex, in addition to their first name, on paper without needing to provide any documentation from a doctor or physician.
And that is what one Swiss man has done and is now set to receive better benefits than he would have received had he remained a male on paper.
The Swiss man lives in Lucerne, which allows women to retire a full year earlier – at 64 vs. 65 for men – and receive more generous benefits, exploited the pension loophole that differs by sex in certain Swiss states.
The individual in question lives in the Alpine canton of Lucerne, where pensions are high – ranging from around €13,300 to €24,000 annually, depending on factors like age and gender.
The sex change only occurred on paper, with the claimant later confirming to family and friends that it was done only to speed up the retirement, according to Luzerner Zeitung.
The newspaper said that while there are regulations supposedly in place to prevent individuals from making “manifestly abusive” applications, in reality, there is “no obligation” on the part of the public to “verify the intimate conviction of the persons concerned” and the sincerity of the applicant is presumed in accordance with the principle of good faith.
The policy has raised further questions about how individuals could abuse the system in the future, with many querying whether the loophole can be used to avoid national service summons, among other things.
One social media user suggested there was nothing stopping a male from applying for a gender change at the age of 17 to avoid military service. “At 30, you go back and change your name to man and that’s it.” All for the cost of 150 Swiss francs (€144).
Lesbian, sure, don’t need to use a strap on, either.
Of course, these days, nothing makes sense.
Fifty years ago they would stick an individual who thought they were Napoleon Bonaparte into an insane asylum. I bet today they would salute him and give him a war pension.
Passing this on to all of our single and under age 25 male driving relatives!
salute him and give him a war pension.…
After asking, “which way should we point the cannons?”
Can I get removed from registration requirements at the Selective Service?
Passing this on to all of our single and under age 25 male driving relatives!
23 posted on 2/22/2022, 11:29:31 AM by Grampa Dave (Encourage and fund our liberals & Antifa to move to Canada. Conservative Canadians can move here!)
Saying the word "Woman" is sexual tyranny and homophobia (and given they're in Switzerland, it's also extreme xenophobia) because a "Woman" may identify as a Man and so that's what they'd really be, a Man.
Therefore, that phrase must be changed to: "Man 'Becomes' Man."
Man, I am so confused right now .....................
We die earlier so we can be left alone.
This is how you guarantee an armed forces that will follow orders and fire on thier own people.
NOT the point at all.
With the camel’s nose having been cheered into the tent. and the whole beast well on its way in, I join in hoping to see otherwise totally normal people fully exploiting the corporate embrace of this madness for personal gain.
Companies who indulge the “woke” need to feel the pain.
So, if some guy says, “Well, crap — if I just tell them I’m a woman I can get half off my car insurance” — it’s a brave new woke world, and if his conscience doesn’t bother him, let ‘er rip.
This is bending companies fully over the barrel they’ve chosen to embrace; bringing the full weight of consequence to bear upon them.
Is the guy out-and-out LYING to get a reduced insurance rate?
Oh, Hell yeah, he’s barefaced lying, but who’s gonna call him on it in this present environment?
You wanna be the hapless schmuck who draws the short straw to go question the guy’s gender identity, and risk a lawsuit?
NOT GONNA HAPPEN.
So, in my book, it’s the savvy customer for the win, and let it RAIN! They’ve sown the wind; let them reap the tornado!
“I don’t write the laws, but it would be silly not to use them for my benefit”
I forget which lawyer said this
It’s not as easy in the USA. I think your doctor has to say you’ve started on hormone therapy.
In any event, you’re the best grandpa ever!
LOL (ouch!)
No. The more ridiculous the situation gets, the closer it will get to being resolved.
Thanks.!
Thanks.!
Thanks.!
So we can really enjoy those last few years without having to look for socks under the bed.
Thanks for posting this new possible reality.
I wonder, how many parents with a safe male driver and a safe female driver in their family, and they are facing double insurance rates for their male driver versus his sister’s rates, are saying to hell with it.
He is now a she.
I am always missing one of my socks. I don’t understand it.
I take them off at the same place, and yet every couple of washes, there is a loner.
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