Polish pension system as a response to the problems of an aging society

The pension system is an important element of social security. Its main objective is to provide citizens with a beyond retirement age standard of living. The realization of this purpose in the modern world faces increasingly difficulties, because on the whole world is observed adverse events, which may include, inter alia, an aging population and a decline in fertility. These developments, combined with permanently lengthening the life expectancy, caused a number of problems affecting the socio-economic and forced the governing changes in retirement systems. The aim of the paper is to show how authorities in Poland, trying to respond to the problem of an aging population, submit modifications to this area of social policy. In addition, in the study, primarily using descriptive and comparative method, there tried to rate the Polish pension system and there tried to show the directions and possibilities of its improvement. The conclusions and recommendations of this article can be also helpful for those responsible for the operation of pension systems in different countries