The Social Democratic Party (PSD) stated on Tuesday that the working group made up of the ministers who handle special pensions will propose a set of amendments that will transpose the recommendations of the World Bank and the European Commission regarding these pensions, and the final decision will be made in the governing coalition.
“As regards the special pension reform, it’s not at all complicated. The working group, formed by the ministers who handle special pensions, will propose a set of amendments that will transpose the recommendations of the World Bank and the European Commission in this matter. Romania cannot afford to miss out on European funds under PNRR [the National Recovery and Resilience Plan] because of special pensions,” reads a message posted on PSD’s Facebook page.
According to the cited source, the ministers who handle special pensions will come up with a formula that will reduce the share of these pensions in the GDP and that will ensure equity in relation to the contributory system.
“All the ministries that pay service pensions will make proposals and integrate them into a single set of amendments, in order to achieve the objectives agreed with the representatives of the World Bank and the European Commission: the gradual increase in the retirement age of service pension beneficiaries up to the level established in the contributory system, no service pension will be higher than the salary from the period of activity, the granting of the service pension only to those who have completed at least 20 years of activity in the professions for which this benefit is stipulated, the restriction of the conditions of early retirement for the beneficiaries of service pensions, so that situations of this kind are completely exceptional. The final decision will be made at the coalition level,” the social democrats also say.
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