“The rate of increase in pensions will be known at the beginning of December when we have the final budget report and we will know the final estimates for both the growth rate and the budget rate for this year” he said on SKAI and on the show “Kalimera” with Fai Mavragani the Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Security Panos Tsakloglou.

Asked if the rate of increase will reach 2.5%, Mr. Tsakloglou replied: “The Prime Minister in the report stated a range of 2.2 – 2.5%. If I take into account the latest data we have on the growth rate of GDP and inflation, it will be closer to this number.

He also noted that the increase in pensions will be included with the January pension that will be paid in December, while for the extraordinary allowance he estimated that it will be given to the beneficiaries on December 18-20.

Regarding the main and auxiliary pensions, Mr. Tsakloglou pointed out that there is a “significant reduction in the stock of pending auxiliary pensions. At the moment, the outstanding overdue supplementary pensions in EFKA are 32,500 and 19,500 are the outstanding main ones”.

Asked when the regulation with the corrections to the solidarity contribution will be activated, the Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Security replied that “it will come very soon, before the end of the year, which will say that the scales of the solidarity contribution are adjusted by the same percentage , with which the pensions are also adjusted annually. So everyone will receive their pension normally and will not have this reduction.