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The aid of BGN 120 for food to be given to the adults with a minimum pension, they ask from IBNI
The Socialists have again introduced a law for the elderly and propose that maternity in the second year be BGN 650.
Pensions to be recalculated as early as September 1 with the insurance income from 2018. This change in the Social Insurance Code was introduced on the first working day by the BSP and “Stand up BG. We are coming”. This proposal passed the first reading in the previous parliament, but due to its short life it failed to become a fact.
According to the estimates of “Stand up BG. We are coming” 75% of pensioners will receive an increase. However, in case of recalculation, 929,990 pensioners will be left without a penny increase in the pension, calculations of the insurance institute show. They were also made for the socialist bills of the previous parliament.
The caretaker government is preparing various options for higher pensions. As “24 hours” wrote two options are being prepared. The first is an accurate recalculation of pensions with current insurance income for 2018 or 2019. However, the price is BGN 3 billion per year and not all pensioners will receive an increase. The second cheaper option with a price of about BGN 140 million per month is a raise through the coefficient for a year of service. He is preferred by the caretaker Minister of Social Affairs Galab Donev, because he will give an increase to all pensioners. However, the recalculation is already considered to increase the coefficient from 1.2 to 1.35. Thus, the increase in pensions should be about 17 percent. Probably a little higher up to BGN 350 will be the raising of the minimum pension. This option also envisages an increase in the pension ceiling by 17 percent.
The last recalculation of pensions was in 2008, and since then the gap between old and new pensions has become wider.
The recalculation of pensions will cost the state budget an additional BGN 185 million per month, and for 2022 – BGN 2.286 billion, write the people around Maya Manolova. “The goal is to create a balance between the pensions of people who retired before 2018 and those after. At the same time, the disparities in the amount of pensions will be reduced due to the large differences in the average insurance income over the years,” reads the reasons for the bill. .
From “Stand up BG. We are coming” offer the aid of BGN 120 for food products to be paid to the pensioners with a minimum pension. The previous government granted it to people with pensions between BGN 300.01 and BGN 369. In this way, 733,000 pensioners will receive additional support, their accounts show. In their motives it is written that this will cost about BGN 88 million.
Maya Manolova’s people have also made changes to the Personal Assistance Act.
Maternity in the second year to reach BGN 650, which is the minimum wage, are the other proposals submitted by the BSP. According to their estimates, another BGN 32 million will be needed in the budget from September to December.
The records of the socialists to grant higher one-time assistance for the birth of a second and third child are already in the records. Their proposal is for it to be 10 minimum wages, but the condition is that the parents have been insured for at least 24 months before the birth. The aid of BGN 250 should be given not only for first-graders, but also for parents with low incomes to children in primary school. The socialists’ accounts show that another BGN 90 million will be needed.
The BSP again proposes to have a law for the elderly. It applies to Bulgarians over 65. The Socialists propose measures for social inclusion and cultural cohesion, as well as those in health care, education and training. A novelty is the offered care for elderly people in a foster family.
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