Nikos Chourdakis is the new deputy governor of e-EFKA

The position of Nikos Khourdakis, in the position of his deputy governor, was approved by a majority by the DEKO Committee of the Parliament e ΕΦΚΑ.

The deputies of ND gave a positive vote, negative of SYRIZA, the Movement for Change, the KKE and the MERA25, while the representative of the Hellenic Solution stated “present”. Opposition parties have stated they will not run in the by-elections.

“Our goal is always to help the insured but also to make them more flexible, through the modern technology, structures and procedures of e EFKA, in order to help the employees of EFKA to do their job faster and more understandable to insured “said Mr. Khourdakis, who underlined that the goal is through a process “clean and transparent”, a process “fast and flexible”, for retirees to pay their pensions on time.

In relation to the financial statements and cash, Mr. Khourdakis said that while a great effort has been made in recent years, his goal is to improve the way in which movable and immovable values, fixed assets, etc. should also be found. best way to help Organization utilize various financial tools and optimize its position.

Especially for the cash, which is necessary for the payment of pensions, Mr. Khourdakis said that his own contribution concerns the creation of faster, easier and more automated ways, for the connection with the banks, to be done immediately and seamless payment.

In order to capture income-contributions, he stated that the planning should proceed in such a way that the insured has a clear picture of what he has to pay, that is, the system becomes “more popular”, “without problems in understanding the obligations “,” To make their payment easier “. In this direction, either digital platforms, “or other ways of capturing and informing the insured, whether they are companies or individuals, will be used, in order to have a clear picture so that they do not delay in their payments”.

Referring to the receipts of overdue payments, Mr. Khourdakis expressed the assessment that “it can be significantly improved”, in order to increase the cash resources of EFKA, to ensure an even larger surplus than what exists today and so that more actions can be taken. . “The ways will have to do primarily with the debtor. So we have to ensure that he is informed. To be closer to him, to make our communication easier, that is, not to look like an awe-inspiring opponent, to be able to help him, in the strongest and most flexible ways, to make the repayment, which can be difficult for the same financially “said Mr. Khourdakis and added that the aim is for the “experience of the insured” to be such that it does not create doubts and thus to have clear information and to give him “such channels” to have information and to pay and not has an aversion to servicing his debts.

He also stressed that the digital transformation will provide an opportunity to make data access easier, clearer and more transparent, and thus convince employers and policyholders to come and pay. As, during his hearing, the deputies reported on the possibility of utilizing companies, Mr. Khourdakis stressed that “in an environment governed by rules, nothing will be implemented that will circumvent these rules or make it worse the process, for each employee or each employer. “The plan is to optimize the experience of the insured, not to be crowded in the stores of e EFKA, to understand the documents and to be able to do their job more easily”

Mr. Khourdakis also referred to the human resources in e EFKA, saying that there is clearly the intention “to bring new people, but the Organization will also rely on the staff that knows, from previous years, how the insurance system works and how the contributions, to educate young people and perhaps make them even better than them “. In that, he said, the digital transformation that has already begun and in the last year includes a multitude of applications will help, but many more things will be done.

The Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Panos Tsakloglou, stated that despite the problems inherited by the current government, important steps have been taken that have already begun to yield results. Especially in the field of pensions, Mr. Tsakloglou said that last year EFKA issued the highest number of pension decisions ever made in its history, 224,000 decisions. In this climate, he expressed the belief that with the latest initiatives, the issue of pensions may have been resolved this year, to a greater extent.

Referring to the property of EFKA, Mr. Tsakloglou did not fail to point out that every year the state gives to EFKA about 15 to 16 million and while the “valuation of all the property of EFKA is almost what the state gives in a month “, Ie around 1 to 1.5 billion and” therefore a rational use of this property must be made “which” however is not the only one that will solve the problems “.

Panagiotis Tsakloglou reminded that the Social Security system “is not just a deficit, it is strongly deficient”. “More than one in two euros, which we are currently paying for pensions, are transfers from the budget. “It is not from contributions of the insured”, said Mr. Tsakloglou and added that the system so far is “completely distributive”. But the distribution systems work well when we have a lot of employees and a few retirees, said the Deputy Minister of Labor and asked all parties to understand this in order to understand the contribution of the new law that will improve system security by introducing capitalization. “The new system we voted for creates capital,” he said, referring to the new law on supplementary insurance, adding that “a significant part of the reserves of this system will go to investments in the Greek economy.”

“Investments are the main lever for growth,” said Mr. Tsakloglou, who also noted that this new system creates strong disincentives to undeclared work, because the insured knows that he has an individual piggy bank of his own.

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