One storey house with big garden - ID 3334

Bulgarians' Incomes Climb Twofold Over 1999 - 2007 21/04/2008
The income average per person in a Bulgarian household over the period 1999-2007 climbed roughly twofold from EUR 750 to EUR 1550, data of the National Statistical Institute show. Salary incomes have also increased two times at their face value, which shows changes in the labour market took place in the last eight years - the employment has raised and the pension age has been extended. There are some increase also in the pensions' size as the real incomes raised by 54,8 percent. That phenomenon could be explained by the increase in the number of the elderly people in Bulgaria. Money a household gains from performing agriculture activities has decreased. In the period 1995 - 1998 the food expenses of a household were set at over 50 percent of the money earned while in 2007 that... more

Important Advice For Those Moving Abroad In Retirement 28/08/2008
There has been a large and truly significant rise in the numbers of British retirees moving abroad in the past 5 years and it has probably got more to do with fiscal fundamentals than anything else at all. The rising cost of living in the UK is a massive contributory factor - but it is really only becoming a significant factor now. Prior to this, the fact that the cost of living in many overseas destinations is more affordable and that countries like Cyprus tax pensioners far less than the UK has resulted in greater numbers of retirees seeking a haven abroad.Now that inflation is spiralling and the very real cost of existing day to day has reached levels at which working people are finding things difficult to deal with, just imagine how tough things are for pensioners living on a fixed... more