By Chrysostomos Tsoufis

Facing bell 12 pensions high (main and auxiliary) will find the pensioners who do not declare to EFKA that they are working.

This is stated in a circular of the EFKA with which it gives instructions to its employees regarding the new framework that governs the insurance treatment of working pensioners as it applies after the passage of the bill of the Ministry of Labor in December.

The effect of article 114 which abolishes the penalty of withholding 30% of the pension and replaces it with a resource of 10% of the remuneration in favor of EFKA has retroactive effect from the new year of 2024.

The circular expressly states that during the period of work of the pensioner and therefore compulsorily insured, the pensioner continues to normally receive all the main and auxiliary insurance to which he is entitled, whether he receives a pension due to old age or due to disability.

Exceptionally, in cases of retirement due to old age, the payment of the main and auxiliary pension is suspended if the pensioner has NOT reached the age of 62.

Especially for disability pensioners (from a common or occupational disease, occupational accident or accident outside of work) paragraph 4 of article 63 of Law 2676/1999 which provided for the interruption of the pension (main and supplementary) if the disability pensioner takes up work from which healthy employed persons are paid, is repealed .

Thus, from 1/1/2024, according to the circular, the control of the insurance bodies regarding the amount of wages/income from the work of the pensioners due to disability ceases and the disability pensions are paid regardless of the amount of wages and regardless of when it started the pensioner his work (even before 2024).

Regarding how the insurance time of the working pensioner is treated, retroactivity goes back to 13/5/20216.

It is foreseen that after the pensioner’s employment is stopped, the insurance time that is created is used to increase the already paid pension, but not automatically but at the pensioner’s request.

The surcharge will start to be paid from the first day of the month following the application,

The same applies, clarifies EFKA and for retirees who continued their work from 12/5/2016, the utilization assumes that the previous provisions of Law 4387/2016 provided for utilization of the employment time, which, as mentioned above, is carried out in accordance with the provisions of par. 7 of the notified article. (par. 8)