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These benefits will increase for officers and soldiers, judges, victims, first and second degree pensioners, investigators.
On Tuesday, 130 members of the Seimas voted in favor of such amendments to the State Pension Law, initiated by Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė and Jonas Jarutis, members of the “peasant” faction, and one abstained.
According to Tom Tomilin, spokesman for the “campesinos” opposition, state pensions are indexed to rising prices: “This is in accordance with the inflation rate. This is not the same as the indexation we have in the pension system, where pensions are indexed to the growth of the wage bill and its trends “.
The chairman of the Seimas Budget and Finance Committee Mykolas Majauskas supported the increase in these pensions, but invited the Seimas to debate whether there are abuses in their allocation.
“I would also invite the Research Division of the Seimas to examine who is granted state pensions in other countries of the European Union and see if the system we have in Lithuania really complies with European standards and the European social order, to whom, how and when and what state pensions are granted “. He said.
There is currently no mechanism to maintain the value of state pensions other than the state pension of the president’s spouse, so according to the initiators of the amendment, the purchasing power of these pensions is decreasing as economic conditions change. .
In 2019, around 97.7 thousand people received state pensions. people (including widows and orphans), around 139.4 million were used for these pensions last year. euros.
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