The Deputy Minister of Labor spoke about the Joint Ministerial Decision (CMD), which specifies the eligibility conditions for the payment of a pension to insured persons of the e-EFKA with debts of up to 30,000 euros or 10,000 euros for debts to the former Agricultural Insurance Organization (formerly OGA). and Social Security, Panos Tsakloglou, in an interview on SKAI 100.3 radio.

As Mr. Tsakloglou explained, “with the previous provisions, any freelancer could with a debt to the EFKA up to 20,000 euros or an insured person of the former OGA with a debt of up to 6,000 euros to receive his pension withholding of the amount due in 60 installments.

With the new KYA, these limits were increased to 30,000 euros and 10,000 euros respectively, as long as two conditions are met. The first is to have a really strong insurance institution, i.e. at least 20 years of paid contributions and the second is that the beneficiary is not a systematic defaulter. That is, to have deposits of up to 12,000 euros.

What we are changing are the debt limits from 20,000 euros to 30,000 euros for the self-employed and from 6,000 euros to 10,000 euros for farmers.”

“In order for someone to enter such an arrangement, two conditions must be met: the first condition is that this person has paid real contributions for at least 20 years and is not a systematic defaulter, checking if the deposits in the previous year were on average term over 12,000 euros. At the beginning of the arrangement, a large withholding of 60% is made in the pension to pay off the debt up to 20,000 euros, and then they enter, like the rest of the debtors, in the arrangement of 60 installments” explained the Deputy Minister of Labour.

Also, Mr. Tsakloglou also referred to pensions, clarifying that the new generation will receive higher pensions in the future from the gradual transformation of the auxiliary insurance from distributive to capitalized, through the creation of the Auxiliary Capitalized Insurance Fund (TEKA).