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The Ministry maintains that the Government intends to address the problems of beneficiaries of pensions and social assistance benefits in a systematic way, ensuring a steady increase in pensions and benefits paid each month.
“The granting of a universal benefit without an assessment of a person’s income, and only once a year, would not be an effective means of reducing exclusion and would not, in principle, improve the financial situation of pensioners, but rather by otherwise complex measures, “reads the conclusion of the ministry.
Such a benefit would require around 180 million. Eur from state funds.
No funds provided
Meanwhile, SADM recalls that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased uncertainty, with lower revenues forecast in 2021, higher government deficits and debt.
“Continuing to assume additional long-term commitments and the increase in public debt would bring the level of public debt closer to 60 percent of GDP in the medium term (2021-2024) and would represent a risk for the sustainability of public finances. The Law of Approval of Financial Indicators of the State Budget and Municipal Budgets of 2021 does not foresee the allocation of additional funds for the implementation of the proposed provisions, so it can be concluded that there will be no possibilities of assuming additional financial obligations, ”says the Ministry.
The Ministry of Social Security and Labor has indicated that there are around 615 thousand people in Lithuania. retired, about 160 thousand. beneficiaries of disability pensions and almost 193 thousand more. other pension beneficiaries.
2020 November 288.8 million were paid for pensions. EUR. Pensions are indexed every year; they increase on average as the economy and the wage bill grow.
Photo by Julius Kalinskas / 15min / Seniors
2021 Social security, old-age and anticipation pensions, disability pensions, widowhood and orphan pensions will increase by 9.58%.
Average old-age pension with the required seniority in 2021 will reach 440 euros, and the average pension – 415 euros (currently the average old-age pension with the required seniority is 400 euros and the average pension – 377 euros).
In December, former Seimas members V. Kravčionokas and Z. Jedinskis registered a proposal to pay a one-time benefit of € 200 to recipients of social security pensions and social assistance benefits, but both economists and current governors criticized harshly the proposal.
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