Στε: Retroactively to all retirees in the private sector for eleven months

By Ioanna Mandrou

Retrospectively for all the main pensions of the private sector recognized by a series of decisions the Plenary session of the Council of State,which issued its long-awaited decisions irrevocably judging the whole matter.
According to the decisions of the Plenary Session, which was chaired by the now honorary President of the Supreme Court Irene Sharp, the right to collect retroactive payments for the cuts in the main pensions is recognized to all private sector pensioners for a period of eleven months. From June 11, 2015 until the corresponding date of May 2016.
For these eleven months, all retirees, as explicitly stated in the relevant decisions, regardless of whether they had appealed or not, ie whether they had retroactively sued, will receive the amounts corresponding to the cuts in their main pensions, for these eleven months.

Retroactive payments will be made to everyone. On the contrary, for supplementary pensions, allowances and gifts, the Supreme Court ruled that only those pensioners who had taken legal action by the end of July 2020 would receive retroactively.

Those who had not applied, until the deadline of July 31, 2020, will not receive retroactively for gifts, allowances, supplementary pensions. And here, for auxiliaries, gifts, bonuses, the decisions refer to the eleven months from June 2015 to May 2016.

The quotation of an excerpt of the decision of the Plenary Session of the CoE is indicative.

“With these data, the Court ruled that the disputed provisions of Article 114 of Law 4714/2020, which provide for the granting of amounts corresponding only to cuts in main pensions for all private sector pensioners and amortization of claims for additional amounts corresponding to cuts in supplementary pensions and abolitions of holiday and leave allowances, but only for those who had not appealed to the courts until the publication of the above law (31.7.2020), concerning a limited period referred to in the past, do not introduce permanent cuts therefore do not affect the core of the right to social security or jeopardize the decent standard of living of pensioners, but introduce an exceptional special scientific study “.
After the issuance of decisions 1403-7 of 2022 the issue of retrospectives closes irrevocably and the competent ministries are obliged to record in numbers the retrospectives that the pensioners must receive. We are talking about the retirees of the private sector, because for them the CoC judged, while for the retirees of the public the Court of Auditors has the relevant competence.

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