Another almost 95,000 people to receive higher pensions in Moldova starting from 1 October 2018
16:28 | 30.09.2018 Category: Official
Chisinau, 30 September /MOLDPRES/ - The pensions for almost 95,000 people will increase as of 1 October 2018. This growth is the last (fourth) stage of the pensions’ recalculation – a reform implemented by the cabinet, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.
It is about 85,064 beneficiaries of age limit pensions and 9,753 ones of disability pensions in all. As a result of this recalculation, the average age limit pension increases by 308.43 lei (by 20 per cent up to an average of 1,784.64 lei) and in case of the disability pension, the increase will be 415.24 lei (by over 40 per cent up to an average of 1,368.45 lei).
The age limit pensions and the disability pensions established on the period 1 January 2014 – 31 March 2017 are revised in the fourth stage of recalculation. The recalculation will be carried out from office, without the beneficiary going to the territorial social insurances body.
„This is a complicated reform, through which we wanted to correct an injustice. Now, we are confident that we have laid foundations of a correct and fair pensions system. After this last stage is over, we can say that we have adjusted the pensions hit by the devaluation of money in time for all those who were wronged after the 2000 year,’’ Prime Minister Pavel Filip, who initiated the pensions’ reform, stressed.
The process of recalculation, which is part of the pensions’ reform, was initiated in 2017 and the government managed to finish it one year and a half earlier than initially scheduled. The pensions of hundreds of thousands of persons were revised following this reform:
1) The pensions established in the years 2001-2008 – recalculated on 1 April 2017 (83,643 beneficiaries);
2) The pensions set in the years 2009-2011 – recalculated on 1 November 2017 (67,653 beneficiaries);
3) The pensions established in the years 2012-2013 – recalculated on 1 April 2018 (54,165 beneficiaries);
4) The pensions set on the period 2014 – 31 March 2017 – recalculated on 1 October 2018 (94,817 beneficiaries).
