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September 1 comes with good news for the almost 5 million retirees, but also for the companions of people with disabilities: starting Tuesday, pensions will be increased, increasing the pension point by 14%.
The Fiscal Council experts point out that the financial effort will exceed 13,000 million lei by the end of 2021, given that the country’s economy is severely affected by the pandemic.
The pension point was 1,265 lei until today. With the increase of 14%, it increases by 177 lei and reaches 1,442 lei. Thus, pensions increase on average by 200 lei.
However, the minimum pension increases only by 96 lei, from 704 to 800 lei.
Postmen have already started distributing higher pensions this morning. Since then, they have been transferred to the accounts of those who preferred to receive them as such.
Old Man: “There is some extra money there. It is something to be received.”
The money sent by Correos will reach people in two installments. The second begins on September 10. Other benefits will also increase from Tuesday.
Daniel Baciu, president of the National Pension House: “These are other parameters that generate other increases. The companion allowance, which is assigned to people with disability pensions grade 1, which is a percentage of the value of the pension point, respectively 80% of this pension point, which increases, also increases this companion allowance “.
The specialists of the Fiscal Council recommend a lot of caution, in the most recent report of the institution. In the document I speak of a financial effort of more than 3,600 million lei, from the state budget, for this year, and of almost 11,000 million lei, the following year, amid the increase in the pension point.
Currently, almost 5 million Romanians benefit from this indexation, but the budget is obliged to cover the unforeseen expenses generated by the pandemic.
Daniel Dăianu, President of the Fiscal Council: “We have public spending that cannot be limited only to social assistance and wages. We must also make investments. We see a deficit of at least 7.5% of GDP in 2021, this data shows why a correction cannot be postponed indefinitely. “
The Fiscal Council recommends a coherent strategy and a multi-year plan to consolidate the country’s budget, otherwise we will be paralyzed. Pensions should have increased by 40 percent since September 1, according to a law passed during the PSD government, but the crisis caused by the pandemic makes this increase impossible. It would have been difficult to achieve even under normal conditions, financial experts say.
Daniel Dăianu, president of the Fiscal Council: “In the coronavirus we saw how we go from corner to corner that we do not have resources and that we are obliged to finance ourselves in the markets, to take out loans, so we have to think in perspective. increase taxes and duties. “
The impact of increasing pensions and allowances in Romania would be at least 13 billion lei. Exactly the public spending of the Romanian state in the first 7 months of 2020.
