Prime Minister Nicolae Chuke said on Thursday that military pensions were long-service pensions, not special pensions, and that it had been decided at coalition level that anything that meant regulating pay and pensions was working group analysis , which will be created. at the level of the Ministry of Labor.

Nikolay ChukaPhoto: Government, Facebook
  • “Military pensions, regardless of the field in which they work, are state military pensions, they are retirement pensions, they are not special pensions.
  • At the level of the Coalition, we decided that everything related to the regulation of salaries and pensions is an analytical activity within the framework of working groups that will be created at the level of the Ministry of Labor, which will include representatives of state structures, as well as representatives of employers, trade unions, and civil society in order to by the end of the year we had what would represent the fulfillment of our milestone in PNRR and in terms of salaries and pensions.” This was announced by Prime Minister Nikolay Chuke on Thursday in Rymnik-Vilcha.

Answering the question about taxation of special pensions, he said:

  • “Taxation, as it stands now, is an aspect that should be very well connected to the digitization of the system in the Ministry of Finance, so that we can have a system that really gives us a picture of everything that the revenue part means, and that way the level is set taxation. The way things look now, we cannot make this decision,” Chuke said.

According to government sources cited Economedia.roThe European Commission would officially ask Romania to include military pensions in the reform of the pension system, which will be based on the principle of contributions.

According to the latest property declaration, in 2020 Prime Minister Nicolae Chuke had an army pension of 214,990 lei, which is lower than the same year’s income of more than 166,000 lei (148,446 lei allowance for the period when he was Minister of Defense and another 17,683 lei as Prime Minister).

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