Until March 15, retrospectively and automatically he will pay EFKA in the form of an advance payment of its part auxiliarybeginning with 100 eurobut may exceed 6000 euros, in pensioners who even wait years for the issuance of their additional pension.

measure concerns insured who applied for download additional pension, old age, disability or deathuntil July 1, 2022 and for which a decision has been made Chief Editor.

Specifically for supplementary old-age pensions, the applicant must have at least 15 years of supplementary insurance (or 4,500 days of supplementary insurance). The relevant provision is expected to be presented in Parliament as an amendment by the competent Minister of Labor Kostis Hatzidakis, so that the amounts due to the pending pensioners will be paid in the middle of next month.

This applies to those who applied before July 1, 2022 and the basic pension has been awarded.

In detail, speaking yesterday on SKAI television, St. Hatzidakis it turned out that the advance will be provided until March 15, 2023 – without any action on the part of the recipient – and amounts to 100 euros for each month of delay in issuing a supplementary pension for supplementary old-age pensions.

OUR advance payment it is set at 50 euros for disability supplementary pensions and for the surviving spouse applying for a supplementary death pension. In other words, if someone who qualifies waits a year to receive an additional old-age pension, they will receive a lump sum of €1,200 (€100 x 12 months of waiting) by mid-March if they wait two years. €2400 etc. K.

Considering that there are pensioners who have been waiting for their additional allowance even more than 5 years, it is easy to conclude that there are – some – pensioners who will receive even 6,000 euros. It is estimated that this measure will affect about 40,000 pensioners. Of course, at least another 40,000 people will receive their pension before the end of February. These are EFKA’s plans for approximately 83,000 overdue supplementary pensions for which the basic pension has already been paid out.

In particular, Mr. Hatzidakis, when asked how many potential recipients of the advance pension and supplementary pensions, noted that the overdue supplementary pensions, for which the decision on the basic pension has already been made, amount to approximately 80,000 people. Of these, about 40,000 are expected to be released by the end of February. And this is because, as he explained, thanks to the initiatives taken, such as the introduction of automated procedures and digital tools, the mass acceptance of overdue additional pension cases by the speakers who until recently issued basic pensions, as well as the work of a special control tower for additional pensions, and As well as pensions, a significant acceleration in the rate of granting additional pensions is expected from 9,000-10,000 per month last year to 20,000 per month in the two months from January to February 2023. Thus, the advance payment is estimated to concern approximately 40,000 insured persons. According to the minister, the amount of the advance will be a one-time payment, since even in these cases, a decision on the appointment of an additional payment is expected by the summer.

In this context, a new intervention is being promoted for a more efficient functioning of the mechanism for issuing additional pensions with an accelerated procedure, which is already established by Article 48 of Law 4921/2022. In particular, supplementary pensions will be issued by the last former institution to which the pensioner belonged, when it comes to pensioners who have 15 years of supplementary insurance (4500 days), if they are 67 years old or have their supplementary insurance fully or partially completed in the former ESS (Uniform additional insurance fund for employees) or additional insurance bodies that have joined it. It is expected that this measure will simplify and speed up the process of issuing pensions.

Process acceleration

EFKA’s services are pushing the gas to issue more than 80,000 overdue applications for supplementary pensions, with a target of 20,000 applications per month in the coming months, up from about 10,000 applications in the previous period. Thus, after reaching the goal of radically limiting overdue basic pensions, Minister of Labor Kostis Hatzidakis sets a new goal to complete the procedure and supplementary pensions with delays of up to 5 or at most 7 years. The schedule provides for the issuance of new applications, with an accelerated procedure, after 3 months from the date of issuance of the main one, which means that new pensioners will receive, if the goal is achieved, the main and additional pension within 6 months. the latest. As for overdue applications, it is assumed that 80% of additional pensions will be assigned at the end of the first quarter, and their liquidation is scheduled for the end of spring. It should be noted that based on the latest data for 2022, the State has about 40,000 pending cases, of which 32,000 are overdue, while the ETEAM subsidiary is approaching 65,000 pending cases, of which more than 50 000 are overdue.