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“Currently we have 9,500 beneficiaries of special pensions and the average pension for them is 9,600 lei, while in the public pension system we have around 4.9 million retirees, with an average pension of 1,500 lei, and in total in Romania there are approximately 2.7 million retirees who are below the average pension level. Naturally, everyone feels that what happened in time when voting in Parliament the system of special laws is an inequity “, stressed Turcan, according to Agerpres.
He affirmed, in the context, that pensions and income must be increased fairly and that the principle of contributivity must be followed in the area of pensions. According to the corresponding minister, the most correct thing is to have a contribution and a contribution period, so that there is a fair pension for equal work, equal training, equal conditions and contribution period.
Raluca Turcan described the current Pensions Law as deeply unfair, noting that the 40% increase in pensions by 40% has created a waiting horizon that cannot be sustained under current budget conditions.
“The politicians in electoral time thought from the pen to say that pensions should be increased by 40%, they created a waiting horizon that cannot be sustained under current budgetary conditions. For the increase in pensions by 14% on September 1 of last year, the budget effort is around 8 billion lei. The total effort to combat the pandemic was approximately 16 billion lei. We have extremely large budgets here. In terms of pensions, we must think about all the budgetary effort, how much pensions can increase, how fair this increase is and we opted for a formula in which to increase the smallest pensions faster and catch up with those that have grown the most quick, and let’s put a little finger on special pensions. Although there are not many beneficiaries, about 9,500, so much inequality is created that sometimes the whole society seems to forget about everyday problems, the low level of pensions, and to say why? “Said the minister.
On the other hand, Turcan announced that in a year and a half, about 5 million pension files could be put into electronic format, and later they will be recalculated.
Currently, there are about 250,000 peasant pensions in letter format, files that will be taken one by one to enter the data in electronic format. Another 3.6 million files are in a “semi-outdated” format and 1.3 million in a faster downloadable format.
“We have around 250,000 farmers’ pensions in letter format. If someone had wanted to recalculate them, they would have had to think about putting them in electronic format so that all the data would be entered. 250,000 files will be taken one by one. Every week I intend to be in the funds pension of the territory to see how this process goes. We still have 3.6 million files in a semi-outdated format and 1.3 million files in a format that could be recovered faster. We would like to make this effort in a year and a half, trying to complement the capacity of the European funded county pension funds. In a year and a half, these approximately 5 million files will be put into electronic format and then recalculated, a process that takes very little time. Such an effort was made Between 2005 and 2008, in three years one million pensions were recalculated, that’s all, ”the Minister of Labor also said.
