On Monday, November 15, the first 179 certified accountants and lawyers will start working at e-EFKA and will be selected by the insured, to undertake the rapid issuance of their pension. At the same time, on Friday, November 12, the 2nd training-certification cycle of the next in line of priority 1,200 accountants and lawyers began.
As the Ministry of Labor and e-EFKA have repeatedly stated, their partnership in the process of granting pension benefits is expected to contribute significantly to the effort to accelerate the issuance of pending retirement applications, which is already underway.
In the first phase, certified accountants and lawyers can only take on new pension cases of the IKA, the OGA and the OAEE, which correspond to 75% of the total number of applications each month.
The process
Already, from Wednesday, November 10, the 179 certified accountants and lawyers can apply for registration on the electronic platform that has been created (https://apps.efka.gov.gr/bAccess/) and, from Friday, November 12, they can to connect to the platform in order to set their time availability for future appointments with the insured who apply for retirement. From tomorrow, Monday 15 November, the certified lawyers and accountants will be able to be selected by the insured who submits an electronic application for retirement on the website of e-EFKA, to undertake his retirement case. The insured will be shown those certified who are available (they have undertaken less than five cases) and, after selecting the one he wishes, then sets the date and time of the appointment with the certified.
He will then receive an e-mail stating that his case has been assigned to a certified professional of his choice and that the appointment he has made when submitting his online retirement application is valid.
Activation of the platform for new applications
According to e-EFKA, “the activation of the platform for the submission of new applications by lawyers and accountants is imminent, thus responding to the huge interest of these professionals to help e-EFKA, the insured and consequently the Greek society”.
It is also reminded that on Wednesday, December 15, the examinations of both those of the 2nd cycle and those of the 1st cycle who did not manage to participate in the examinations of the previous week will take place.
The compensation amounts of certified lawyers and accountants
At the same time, with a Joint Ministerial Decision (JMD), the compensations of the certified professional lawyers and accountants-tax technicians have been determined for their participation in the process of granting pension benefits by the institution. Beneficiaries of compensation are defined as certified professionals who, after assignment, have issued certificates or drafted decisions, which have been submitted by the insured to e-EFKA. Specifically, the assignment is notified to e-EFKA and receives a relevant protocol number. On the certificate or the draft decision, prepared by the certified professional and submitted by the insured to e-EFKA, the protocol number of the assignment is written. The e-EFKA checks the correspondence between the submitted certificate or the submitted draft decision and the object of the assignment. If the submitted certificates or plans correspond to the assignment, e-EFKA proceeds to the payment of the respective compensation with an equal credit of the bank account declared by the certified professional.
More specifically, the compensation to which the certified professional is entitled for the transactions in each category is defined as follows:
Issuance of a certificate of insurance time: aa) 40 euros, when the certificate concerns a former social security institution,
ab) 80 euros, when it concerns more than one institution.
Issuance of a certificate of non-existence of due contributions of a self-employed or self-employed person / submission of an application for regulation of due contributions: 30 euros.
Issuance of a certificate of amount due for the recognition of fictitious time: 30 euros.
Draft decision of temporary pension or final pension (main or auxiliary): 60 euros per project.
If the pension is awarded on the basis of the provisions of successive or parallel insurance, 15 euros are added to the compensation per plan for each former social security institution included in the plan with more than one.
Issuance of a pre-retirement certificate of article 47 of law 2676/1999 (A ‘1): 60 euros. If the certificate concerns insurance time spent in most former social security institutions, the fee is 80 euros.
e-EFKA: The rate of awarding pensions has increased
According to e-EFKA, there is an increase in the rate of pensions, mainly after the quantitative target set by the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Kostis Hatzidakis, for the issuance of three pensions by each employee-rapporteur per day. Indicatively, in Regions, such as Crete, the awards doubled within a month. As e-EFKA explains, the operation of the Control Tower in e-EFKA, a modern digital system for monitoring outstanding pensions, but also those issued daily by the Award addresses of the Organization, also contributes to the acceleration of procedures.
As it has been announced, the Control Tower upgrades the e-EFKA as a whole and allows the administration, the General Directorate of Pensions and the directors of the award structures throughout Greece, to have direct information, 24 hours a day and in real time, for all data concerning:
– the number of outstanding pensions both in total and per t. Fund, as well as per category of applications (old age, disability, etc.),
– the number of pensions issued per t. Fund and per day, month, year, etc.,
the number of pensions issued per Region throughout Greece and
– the number of pensions issued per address, but also per rapporteur.
According to the data of September, presented by e-EFKA, the outstanding pensions are around 122,000, with the overdue pensions having fallen below 100,000 (approximately 98,000). According to e-EFKA, the goal is, within the next quarter, to have cleared all outstanding before 2019 and, within the first half of 2022, to address the issue of outstanding pensions.
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