By the end of February, 40,000 will be produced additional pensions out of 80,000 pending in previous years, said the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Kostis Hatzidakis. The Minister of Labor noted that it is now common knowledge that there is a lot of progress in the allocation of basic pensions, since over half a million pensions have been issued in the last two years (2021 and 2022), of which 510,000 thousand to be exact, and added that if anyone Now he wants to compare, it is clear that in 2019 123 thousand pensions were issued, and in 2022 – 290 thousand basic pensions. “No one can dispute these figures,” he said and explained that the appointment of basic pensions, and declared himself “happy”, since now in our country new applications for pensions are issued on average in 60 days, and in Germany in 74 day.

Mr. Hatzidakis said that to date, 80,000 additional pensions are pending, since the basic pension has been issued and because, according to him, EFKA is now using all modern tools used for basic pensions (electronic control room, automated issuance pensions to a large extent) it is certain that by the end of February 40,000 of these 80,000 unpaid pensions will be paid out (i.e. 15,000 paid out in January and another 25,000 in February).

As the responsible minister added, there are still 40,000 additional pensions to be issued, some of which until 2021, and in this context, since automation cannot work in full until pensions are issued normally, this is the responsibility of the state. with an amendment to be voted on by Parliament today: That is, each pensioner waiting for his additional pension will be paid 100 euros for each month of waiting (for example, for a year of waiting 1200 euros). ) until March 15 and clear. If there is an additional disability pension, the amount for each month of waiting is set at 50 euros, since these pensions are smaller.