'Viagra effect' undermining Brazil's pension system: study

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The widespread tendency in Brazil for men to remarry women several decades younger than them, called the "Viagra effect", is undermining the country's pension system, researchers warn.

The report, by Brazil's National Social Security Institute (INSS), showed that a trend of men in their sixties marrying women half their age was leaving a big pool of young widows collecting benefits for much longer than anticipated.

"The social security system was planned so that the wife receives her husband's pension for only 15 years or so. With growing life expectancy and remarriages with much younger women, benefits today stretch out over 35 years," the author of the study, Paulo Tafner, explained to AFP.
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Of the separated men, 64 per cent of those aged over 50 remarry women younger than them. In the 60-64 age range, the proportion is 69 per cent.

And the marked preference is for women aged 30 years and younger.

  Yahoo


What an uplifting story.

[Randy]

Hard to beat those numbers.

[RobJohnson]

Hard to beat those numbers.