Safety net for pensioners’ incomes – The 2+1 meters until Easter

By Chrysostomos Tsoufis

With 2+1 meters up to Easterthe Labor Department is building defenses to boost retirees’ incomes against repeated bouts of inflation.

As the Minister of Labor revealed speaking on SKAI television, the first measure has to do with the so-called advance payment for pending supplementary pensions due to old age, disability or death. As he explained Kostis Hatzidakis there are insured persons who wait 2, 3 or even more years for the issuance of their supplementary pension. They will be given €100 for each month of waiting. That is, if someone is on the waiting list for 3 years, they will receive €3,600.

Prerequisites:

– The application for the issuance of a supplementary permit must have been submitted before July 1, 2022.

-The main pension has been issued

-The insured must have completed at least 15 years of supplementary insurance, especially for the cases of supplementary old-age pensions.

The money will be paid ONCE until March 15 without requiring any action whatsoever from the insured. The labor ministry estimates that the measure concerns about 40,000 pensioners for whom supplementary pensions will not have been issued by the end of February but by the end of June. At the moment the stock of the auxiliaries is around 80,000 and according to the schedule half will have been issued in the first 2 months of the year.

According to some rough first calculations, the fund for the measure amounts to approximately €80m. As an official of the Ministry of Labor explained to skai.gr, the advance payment for the pending supplementary benefits also has the blessings of the Ministry of Finance because not only does it not impose a fiscal burden (the money is budgeted since the state owes it) but it also improves the image of the country in Brussels on a chronic “thorn” issue – that of overdue government obligations – between the 2 sides.

The relevant amendment will be submitted to the Parliament tomorrow at the latest with the aim of being voted on by Friday.

The same amendment will also provide for improvements in the operation of the mechanism for issuing supplementary pensions with the already voted fast track procedure. years of supplementary insurance (4,500 days) if they are 67 years old or all or part of their supplementary insurance has been spent in the former ETEAM (Unified Fund of Supplementary Insurance of Employees) or in supplementary insurance bodies that had joined it, which simplifies and speeds up the issuance procedures.

The third measure concerns the welfare that will be undertaken for those pensioners who neither received increases nor benefited from the other measures to boost pensioners’ incomes, i.e. the abolition of the solidarity contribution, the recalculation of V. Vroutsis and the Christmas accuracy check of the €250. They will be given an extraordinary one-off allowance which has already been agreed with the finance ministry and its amount will depend on the amount of fiscal space that the government will have built and we will know at the end of the month.

If the fiscal space allows it, the perimeter of the beneficiaries will be expanded with first candidates those who had very little benefit from the abolition of the solidarity contribution (of the order of €50.60 per year) and those who erased their personal difference but the final the increase they received was minimal compared to 7.75%.

This specific measure does not exclude the granting of another extraordinary Easter allowance, which will however be given based on net income criteria to the low pensioners and the most vulnerable.

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