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Finance Minister Siniša Mali said today that pensioners are expected to “significantly increase their pensions” next year, according to the so-called “Swiss formula”.
He also said that the intention is to correct that formula so that pensions grow even faster and reach the projected level of 430 to 440 euros of average pension, by 2025.
“The government addresses the issue in a responsible way, such as the position of the oldest citizens of our country, so that the global quotas that can be heard about correcting the ‘Swiss formula’ to the detriment of retirees can only damage the reputation of the country and only attack the sensitive sentiment of our fellow citizens.Otherwise, they feel threatened by the health crisis caused by the coronary virus pandemic, ”Minister Sinisa Mali told Tanjug.
He said that doing these lump sum evaluations can be called ordinary vocabulary – doing math without an innkeeper, and he assessed that it has become a frequent endemic phenomenon in our society.
“President Aleksandar Vučić was very clear when he said that, and now I will repeat it once again: there will be an increase in pensions even greater than the previous ‘Swiss formula’. The current ‘Swiss formula’ predicts that” Pensions are in line 50 percent with inflation and 50 percent with growth in average wages. So if the formula is corrected, we will move in the direction of higher retirement income in the coming years compared to the amount that would allow the application of the current formula, “Mali explained.
According to him, together with the International Monetary Fund, an optimal and sustainable model will be sought, which does not endanger public finances in any way.
He added that it will certainly not happen that the surplus in the pension fund comes from the additional tax burden of existing workers, but that the PIO fund will be filled with contribution payments from workers who will be additionally employed.
“We want to maintain an economic balance between the active and economically inactive population and not be reduced to the relationship that an employee supports a pensioner. We will not achieve our intentions if a working contingent of young people leaves the country. That is why I would like to tell young people: stay in the country, we offer you an opportunity, we create conditions for a quality life. Only with the preservation of that uniformity and additionally with investment cycles, an intelligently designed economic policy, high growth rates above five and more estimates can we reach that goal “, considers Mali.
He reiterated that they do not understand malicious intent and the desire to make things worse.
“Our elders have survived many years of transition, the problems that followed in the now former socialist companies, the economic crisis, inflation, periods of political uncertainty and all that is quite a trauma. But now, when they are affected for the health crisis “Crown, harassing them with the story that they will reduce the planned increases in their pensions, is just a sample of enormous irresponsibility and ignorance of the people who present data, of which it is not known exactly in what are based, “concluded Mali.
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