It will be offered to the Seimas to decide on the additional income for the elderly – pension number 13 – Respublika.lt

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It will be proposed to the Seimas to decide on the additional income for the elderly: the 13th pension. Photo by Marius Morkevičius

Zbignevas Jedinskis, a member of this faction, intends to present a draft amendment to the new version of the Single Benefits Act for Beneficiaries of Social Security Pensions and Social Assistance to Parliament on Thursday on behalf of the Electoral Action Group of Lithuania from the Seimas.

The draft proposes to determine the amount of the thirteenth pension, the people who are entitled to it, the procedure to grant it and pay it.

If approved by the Seimas, people residing in Lithuania who have declared their place of residence or who are included in the accounts of people who have not declared their place of residence and receive old-age pensions from social security (anticipated old age, pension for old age for the disabled) is received by persons residing in Lithuania who have declared their place of residence social security disability pensions; social security widowhood and orphan pensions.

This supplement would also be available to people receiving survivors’ pensions; retirement pensions; compensation for special working conditions; old-age welfare pensions; social assistance disability pensions; social assistance pensions for the care of the disabled at home; social assistance orphan’s pensions; social pensions; welfare compensation.

The authors of the bill believe that if passed, older people would have the opportunity to spend extra money on a larger Christmas and Christmas festive table, that is, for domestic consumption, so the money would certainly go back to the budget state otherwise.

“In the project, we purposely do not intend to differentiate the supplement according to the individual size of the old-age pension, because we do not want people to be discriminated against due to a higher or lower supplement. (…) The current social and old-age pensions do not correspond at all with the current reality. The huge gap between prices and incomes for the elderly or disabled does not guarantee people the opportunity to live in dignity. We are confident that the thirteenth pension will have a significant positive impact on the basket of essential goods of Lithuanian pension beneficiaries, especially during the main holidays of the year “, says Vanda Kravčionok, the largest of the LLRA-KŠS faction of the Seimas, and Z. Jedinskis, a member of the faction.

According to them, this additional additive model also works successfully in other countries: Greece, Spain, Poland.

According to V. Kravčionok and Z. Jedinskis, the implementation of the bill will require around 180 million. budget in the first year of validity, the amount may change in the following year.

After evaluating the project, the Legal Department of the Seimas Chancellery considers that the legal regulations proposed by the draft bill should not be enshrined in the new wording of the Single Payment Law for Beneficiaries of Pensions and Social Security Assistance, but in the new law. The bill proposes a new regulation that establishes new legal relationships. In addition, the regulations established in the law modified by the bill have already been applied in principle, “says the conclusion of the Legal Department of the Seimas signed by the director of the department Andrius Kabišaitis.

The lawyers of the Seimas point out that in the content of the bill, instead of the global payment currently established, it is proposed to establish the “thirteenth pension”.

“It just came to our attention then. It should be noted that the concept of” thirteenth pension “, as well as that of” thirteenth salary “is not legally defined, these concepts are used informally, so it is necessary to consider whether the establishment of such terminology in the Lithuanian legal system is acceptable, “says the Seimas Legal Department.

Given that the implementation of the provisions of the bill will require additional budgetary allocations from the State, Seimas lawyers believe that this bill should be accompanied by a draft amendment to the Law on Approval of Financial Indicators of the State Budget and Municipal Budgets for 2020 , and the conclusion of the Government as a state budget planner. .