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“I see the debate in public and I want to make it clear: there is no need to worry about pensions. Next year, they will be indexed and increased even more. The funds for that will be provided in the draft budget, “the prime minister wrote on Facebook.
This issue was also discussed at the meeting of the head of the country, Gitanas Nausėda, and the Junta del Seimas on Tuesday.
He spoke of the growing provisions related to next year’s budgets.
“The president has raised so many fears that Sodra’s budget, which is not being raised and its reserve, which has been released, should have been used to index next year’s pensions, that the money is not there. We don’t know anything, the figures have not been provided, because this government has refused to enter the budget for the correction, ”said Gabrielius Landsbergis, leader of the Union of the Fatherland, in the presidency on Tuesday.
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According to BNS, the ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Labor Party (LSDDP) will propose amendments to the law to the Seimas so that pensions are indexed despite the economic recession.
According to the party’s president, Gediminas Kirkilas, these changes also have the support of the ruling “peasants”.
“We will propose to remove the provision that does not allow automatic indexation (pension – BNS) if there is no GDP growth. This provision will be eliminated, agreed with the peasants, the Ministry of Finance is instructed to eliminate the categorical provision that indexation only in the case of growth. No one foresaw that there would be such a pandemic and passed such a law. But now all this will be taken away, because compensation is much more important now than in other cases, “said G. Kirkilas at the press conference.
According to the Department of Statistics, Lithuania’s gross domestic product (GDP) decreased by 4% in the second quarter of this year compared to the corresponding period of 2019, to 11.6 billion. euros. During the quarter, the Lithuanian economy contracted 5.5 percent.
In June, the Finance Ministry forecast that the country’s economy would contract 7% this year, and Swedbank forecast 6.5% for Lithuania this year. SEB, 6.7 percent, Bank of Lithuania, 9.7 percent.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) forecasts 8.1-10.4 percent for Lithuania. GDP fell by the European Commission – 7.1 percent.
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