600,000 pensioners will see reductions in their pensions!

One in four pensioners will see a reduction in his pension because in the summer , about 600,000 pensioners will be affected by the implementation of the insurance Katrougalos Act.

It started with the circular on the Social Solidarity Benefit for Pensioner cut, which will be retroactive to June and will reach approximately 100,000 low income.

Then, the circular issued for dividend retired the Civil Servants Share Fund, which retroactively from the beginning of time will suffer weighted average decreases to 32 % (in some cases, will exceed 40%) on dividends they receive.

The subsidiary, decreases, reaching approximately 200,000 pensioners whose main and auxiliary pension is more than EUR 1,300, which will suffer decreases by up to 40% (gross).

The biggest reductions, according to preliminary estimates of experts of social security will suffer those who during the crisis and memoranda had seen their pensions, while reduced, but not at the highest level.

So in the first line with reductions up to 35% are IKA pensioners and former auxiliary ETEAM put on the pension having reached or surpassed the 22nd insurance class.