The government does not give supplements to old pensioners with parallel insurance
They have stepped on the throats of thousands of pensioners, depriving them of thousands of euros from their pensions through accounting tricks. On the other hand, they do not hesitate to celebrate, because under pressure from the Unified Network of Pensioners (ENDISY) who filed lawsuits against the executive of EFKA, after five years they are forced to give back the retroactive benefits to thousands of pensioners. This is how the laudatory reports in the systemic media began, which talk about the return of retroactive payments from parallel insurance of up to 16,500 euros. These are pensioners from the distant 2017-18 who applied for pension, but the addition from parallel work they did while paying insurance contributions was not calculated. These days of insurance could not lead to a second pension, but the Katrougalou Law provided for a top-up.
The Mitsotakis government, when it did the recalculation in the fall of 2019, left this whole world out with one, if nothing else, shameful argument, that it allegedly had not prepared and implemented the necessary software from EFKA to start the gradual payment of the increases – the success story of the Mitsotakis government is largely based on hidden borrowing from pending pensions and the non-payment of public debts to private individuals.
Retrospectives
Now, after ENDISY’s lawsuit reports, it is coming to give retroactively (with the payment of the pension for the months of April and May) to thousands of pensioners. In the first phase, it seems that retroactive payments will be given to pensioners from ISAP, the former Olympiaki, the legal entities under public law and the banks, regarding the recalculation of pensions.
However, many remain outside of these increases. It is about 100,000 pensioners who were awarded a pension before 13.5.2016 and the Mitsotakis government refuses to give them the increases, essentially asking them to appeal to the Court, after first submitting a relevant application to the EFKA under the pretext that they are not entitled to an increase. These approximately 100,000 pensioners during their working life had double employment (parallel insurance) but their second job, although they paid their insurance premiums, was not enough to grant them a second pension.
The Mitsotakis government is deaf. However, ENDISY emphasizes: “There are tens of thousands of pensioners, with the start of pension payments before the “Katrougalou law”, who are also subject to the parallel insurance regime. ENDISY strongly claims that increments be given retroactively to these pensioners as well.”
The irregularities
Unlike the new ones, the old pensions were not recalculated in 2019 based on the current legislation. In simple words, the illegalities against the old (before the Katrougalou law came into force on 13.5.2016) pensions were committed as follows: instead of the recalculation being done on the basis of the actual data as stated in the pensioners’ detailed statements, it was done on the basis of the of data reported by the decisions of the directors of the EFKA and reflect only the data that was taken into account in the calculation of the pension based on the previous law and not the real data, i.e. the data listed in the detailed statements of each insured person and which of course differ.
Specifically:
- From the employees, they arbitrarily excluded the increase from contributions concerning the 13th and 14th salary (Christmas and Easter gifts and leave allowance, for which insurance contributions are normally paid), a total of 16.67%. Therefore irregular losses of up to 200 euros per month arise.
- From the heavy ones they arbitrarily removed the first 3,300 days. Therefore, a rate of 2.97% was deducted, which means losses of up to 70 euros per month.
- From the parallel insurance: besides calculating it with lower rates, they also subtracted time from those who had not completed 16 years.
- In particular, before the Katrougalou law, the legislation for the time of parallel insurance did not provide for an increase, but with 4,800 days a second pension was granted. Thus, the time below 4,800 days was not calculated and no increment has been given. Essentially, they have deducted a rate of over 20%, which means a pension reduction of up to 300 euros per month.
And in the new pensions
However, the irregularities in the new pensions, i.e. those awarded after the entry into force of the Katrougalou law on 13.5.2016, are obvious and lead to a reduction in the pensions paid.
Specifically:
- The increase due to the additional contributions (13th – 14th salary) has not been attributed to employees.
- Those who had heavy insignia (even a few) and did not retire with the provisions of the heavy are entitled to an increase (0.27% per year).
- Those who had parallel insurance are entitled to an increase (1.5% per year).
- Employees in the former DEKO and banks (from 1993 onwards had additional contributions of up to 16%) are entitled to an increase of up to 1.2% per year.
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