The liquidation of 780,000 pensions over a period of 28 months was achieved by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security and the officials of EFKA throughout Greece. Of the 38,000 that were pending earlier, today the pensions that remain to be settled are less than 24,000, as pointed out by the responsible minister, Domna Michailidou, in her statements at the Disability Certification Center (KEPA), on Polytechniou Street in Thessaloniki.

The minister, accompanied by the commander of the National Social Security Agency (EFKA), Alexandros Varveris, made visits to the e-EFKA local government, PEKA – KEAO, and KEPA from the morning. “Since the summer, when the outstanding main pensions were 35,000, we have now broken the barrier of 24,000 and in fact the department in Aristotelous Thessaloniki has now also caught the pre-retirement, so that pensions can be issued even more quickly and efficiently” he added.

Referring exclusively to its structure EFKA in the center of Thessaloniki, she praised the work being done and characteristically noted: “the team there has done a very great, fast and efficient job in the part of the recapitulation of the main pensions. The purpose is to understand how substantial the progress is and the speed with which it has been made.”

Expressing her satisfaction for the great progress that has been made, she noted that the digitization projects of the archive are also underway and emphasized: “we are very optimistic about the course of the main, but also the auxiliary pensions”.

“The visit to Thessaloniki was something we were planning with the Minister of Labor and Social Security, so that we could see directly in the field the developments we have, both at the level of issuing pensions and in the course of operation of KEPA”, he emphasized from his side Mr. Varveris, adding: “in general we are quite happy, but we are here and we are working on the further development and we hope that things will go even better in the future.”

Doctors at KEPA, specialties and salary are more than doubled to +50%

In the over-doubling of doctors in KEPA, from 500 to 1,200, in increasing their salary by 50%, but also in strengthening the specialties in the centers, the Minister of Labor and Social Security mentioned in her statements, noting that the aforementioned developments are a result of “the great and essential change promoted by the Ministry”. He characteristically stated that “this change was needed, since nothing had been done since 2010”, while he also underlined the constitution of the KEPA body.

Among other things, Mrs. Michailidou mentioned: “we are here in Thessaloniki, because work cannot be done only from the ministry and the office. We are here, we listen to the good, the problems and the anxieties of the world and that is why we came to a disability structure, that of KEPA in Thessaloniki. Having worked on disability for four years since my previous position, it is now clear that disability is one of the immediate priorities of both the ministry and EFKA itself.”