Mitsotakis promised to return all debts to pensioners after… victory in the elections

The ND government will seek to finally end the saga of retroactive payments to pensioners, as it is planned to pay them to everyone (regardless of whether they went to court or not), according to OT.

Pensioners expect to receive amounts from 800 to approximately 3,300 euros in 11 months, from June 2015 to May 2016, due to the reduction of supplementary pensions and the abolition of supplements. The most likely scenario is that retroactive payments totaling €2.5 billion will be paid in installments starting in 2024 over four or five years.

This option will be weighed by the economic headquarters – depending on the fiscal space – and included in the ND election program. Reimbursement of retroactive payments will be one of the government’s measures in the field of pensions for the coming four years (Of course, if the New Democracy party wins in the elections. Editor’s note).

The benefits package will include a one-time difference allowance, a reduction in the solidarity contribution, and an annual standard pension increase (inflation plus growth divided by two).

As for retroactive payments, a whole year has already passed since the publication of the decrees of the Plenum of the State Council No. 1403-1407 / 2022, which ordered the government to pay pensioners retroactive payments of allowances and additional payments for 11 months of 2015-2016. The pensioners claimed 84 months (2012-2021) of retroactive payments awarded to them by the decisions of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the State Council No. 2287-2288/2015.

However, the court of cassation overturned its own decisions of 2015, which recognized the reduction of pensions and the abolition of allowances as unconstitutional, and appointed only 11 months of retroactive payments, and only to those who filed a claim before July 31, 2020. According to the operative part of the CoE Decision, retroactive payments for budgetary reasons, although all pensioners are entitled to them, should only be received by those of them who filed a claim before 31-7-2020, that is, when the Vrutis Law 4714/2020 was published, which forbade filing lawsuits after its publication. Today, neither 300,000 pensioners who filed claims before 7/31/2020, nor 2,000,000 pensioners who did not file claims received nothing at all.

The retroactive payments irrevocably awarded by the CE (in its recent decision) to those pensioners who filed claims before 31-7-2020 relate to:

• Decrease in additional pensions and additional pensions for vacation and summer for the period from June 2015 to May 2016.
• Holiday and summer supplements to basic pensions for the period June 2015 – May 2016
• Interest (6% until April 2019 and 3% thereafter) on amounts returned on basic pensions and on amounts received now on supplementary pensions, holiday and summer supplements.

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