Moldovan top court rules elderly people can receive pensions not taken for more than three years

Chisinau, 19 July /MOLDPRES/ - Elderly people can receive the pensions not taken for a period longer than three years, according to a today’s ruling by the Constitutional Court (CCM).  

Under CCM’s decision, the pension represents the beneficiaries’ primary source of existence. “Therefore, the deprivation of the right to pension is disproportionate and substantially harms the right to property, being contrary to the constitutional provisions. At the same time, CCM ruled that the pension can be received under a proxy issued for a period longer than six months,” the document reads.  

The Court said that there were more ways of raising the pension, so that the beneficiaries have to get the payment of the incumbent rights including via cards or current accounts opened at requests by banking institutions.  

The CCM ruling reads that the present mechanism “is defective, especially for the citizens from abroad, for which reason, it issues a note to the parliament to revise the normative framework.”

The decision is final, cannot be subject to any appeal and enters into force on the day of adoption.

(Reporter A. Plitoc, editor M. Jantovan)