Overall more than 8/10 pensioners with a personal difference will see their earnings increase in one way or another.
Chrysostomos Tsoufis
The last time a pensioner went to an ATM and saw an increase in their pension was 2010.
Twelve years then the increase clock is ticking again as from today 1,467,000 pensioners will receive the full 7.75% increase.
Today pensioners of OGA, OAEE, NAT, ETAA and ETAP SME are paid.
Friday and Monday those insured in Public, IKA-ETAM, Banks, OTE and Public according to the AMKA expiring. Odds January 27, evens January 30.
Among the winners are also those who carry the infamous personal difference.
They will get smaller increases than 7.75%, but about 300,000 will have it zero and the rest will be in a much more favorable position to enjoy future increases.
For example, a pensioner of €560 with a personal difference of €70 will reduce it to €42.
Even so, as the Ministry of Labor emphasizes, they are not left to their own devices since 515,000 have already seen increases due to the abolition of the solidarity levy and 260,000 received the €250 accuracy check in December, and will probably see another one if the measure is qualified and for the next benefit package.
Overall more than 8/10 pensioners with a personal difference will see their earnings increase in one way or another.
For all pensioners, the almost simultaneous application of the 7.75% increase, the abolition of the solidarity levy, the €250 check and the 4th installment of Vroutsis law, means that 94.6%, more than 2.4 million will see at least 1 increase while 1.3 million, roughly half, will see 2 increases while 185,000 are the luckiest to see three increases in their earnings.
More specifically: A pensioner currently receives a pension of €900 and declares income from other sources of €6,200 in total per year. With the application of the 7.75% increase and the benefit from the abolition of the special solidarity levy, the total annual benefit amounts to €906 (€840 from the 7.75% increase and €66 from the abolition of the special levy). The benefit amounts to an additional pension.
A pensioner who submitted a pension request before May 2016, with more than 30 years of insurance, receives 514 euros per month.
With the application of the 7.75% increase, his monthly benefit from this increase will be €40 and the annual benefit will be €480. At the same time, he received an additional increase of 2.83% due to the 4th annual increase provided for in Vroutsis, i.e. an additional €174 per year.
Due to his low income, he also received the aid of €250.
Therefore, with the combination of the above three increases, it follows that his total annual benefit amounts to 904 euros. A total benefit of more than one and a half pension that is.
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