Raluca Turcan, on the recalculation of pensions in 2021. Labor Minister Raluca Turcan said she wants to recalculate about 5 million pensions in the next 18 months.

“I am not that pessimistic. We have a difficult time calculating all pensions in Romania because there are currently approximately 250,000 farmers pensions in letter format. This is how you have all the elements to calculate pensions. If he had proposed to recalculate all his pensions as we have been told over the years, he would have had to put at least these 250,000 files in electronic format.

Not to mention that there are 2 more types of software that are not compatible with each other and then including the transfer of an amount of approximately 3.6 million pensions to another system must be done in an electronic manual mix.

Therefore, to ensure this fundamental component of reform in the calculation of pensions, we will present a project on the National Recovery and Resilience Program, because it has a reform component and we will try in a short time to acquire software, equipment, we pay additional personnel for a determined period to collaborate with the pension funds and together with the employees of the Pension Houses to achieve in a year and a half what has never been done before. The largest calculation of pensions was made between 2005 and 2008, when 1 million pensions were recalculated in three years. We intend to recalculate 5 million pensions in a year and a half ”, said Minister Turcan.

Raluca Turcan, on the recalculation of pensions in 2021. New files also come into payment

“At the same time, new files are being paid and the employees of the pension funds are not many, the pension funds are under-dimensioned in terms of number of staff and probably no one has raised the question of a visible fact, namely that are growing with the number of retirees. In the pension funds you have to adapt your human resources to the demand you have. We will try to cover these dysfunctions, make the pension houses more technically advanced to carry out this process that in fact involves the introduction of all pension files in some parameters in electronic format when we finalize the pension recalculation formula. And pensions are recalculated in a very short time, “he added.