Changes for pensioners: – This is a damage that requires compensation – said Deputy Minister of the Family Sebastian Gajewski. The ministry has prepared a bill, which provides that pensioners who received or receive earlier pensions granted to them before June 6, 2012 will have the right to re -determination of the amount of common benefits. The document is to be adopted by the end of 2025, and the new regulations would start to apply in June 2026. This is a correction of the change from more than 25 years ago. It is estimated that it applies to 70,000 people.
Seniors lost: The 1999 pension reform introduced, among others removal Most industry retirement privileges, including limiting the possibility of switching to so -called earlier pensions. New The pension system covered people who were born after December 31, 1948. – for some insured parts, in particular insured people born in the late 1940s and in the 1950s, The change of the pension system was usually unfavorable – admits Sebastian Gajewski. That is why soothing privileges were introduced.
Pensions grew like crazy: Among the privileges there was the possibility of retiring earlier on the principles in force in the old pension system, and then after a few years of collecting an early age for a universal pension. – Over time, it turned out that combining these possibilities, and therefore two different pension systems, led to the fact that The longer the recipient received an earlier pension, the greater his pension Universal – explains the deputy minister. Funds on your account ZUS They were valorized annually, so they were growing, and in addition from year to year the parameter of the average life duration was decreased, i.e. the universal pension became higher.
Complicated pension system: To end this, in the abovementioned 2012, the basics of the universal pension were reduced, i.e. funds on the insured's account in ZUS by the amounts of previously collected earlier pensions. – The problem is that this provision came into force with the six -month Vacatio Legis and found application to all pensioners who, before its entry into force, took earlier pensions and did not yet reach the universal retirement age. At the time of determining your right to an earlier pension So they could not predict how the collection of this pension would translate into the amount their future universal pension – explains the deputy minister.
Who lost? This solution felt the most women from 1953, who learned about the use of a mechanism of reduction even a few months before reaching the universal retirement age. – So they had no room for maneuver and the opportunity to adapt to the new situation – says Sebastian Gajewski. Their problem was repaired by the Act of 2020, but with the consequences of a short vacatio legis, not only this group faced, but also women born in 1954-1959 and men born in 1949-1952 and 1954-as opposed to them, the remaining anniversary of retirement earlier learned about changes, and therefore 2 to 6 years before the achievement of the universal age pension. This gave a much larger field of maneuver – added the deputy minister.
Large changes: – In the face of these groups, the changes were introduced in violation of the citizen's trust in the state. For this reason, we have prepared a bill, which provides that pensioners who collected or still receive pensions earlier granted to them before June 6, 2012 and achieved a universal retirement age and acquired the right to a universal pension after 2012, will have the right to re -determine the amount of the universal pension Without the use of the mechanism of its reduction, average earlier pensions – he said in Parliament Sebastian Gajewski. – Re -determining the amount of the universal pension will take place as at the date of submission of the application for this pension. And if someone did not submit this conclusion, because there were people who knew that this mechanism of reducing the universal pension by previously collected earlier pensions would cause that this universal pension would be lower than the previous one, so the application is not profitable to submit, such persons will be able to re -determine the amount of the universal pension at the date of reaching the universal retirement age – he explained.
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Sources: Sejm sitting (April 3)