All the award plan of the outstanding main and subsidiary pensions

By Dimitris Katsaganis

The government is “running” a plan to award all overdue main and supplementary pension applications.

Overdue (i.e. more than 3 months waiting) applications for main pensions from a fund or successive insurance have first priority. Applications for main parallel insurance pensions have second priority. Third priority is given to applications for supplementary pensions.

By the end of August, the government has committed to complete the awarding of all overdue pending pension applications, i.e. now those submitted in 2020 and 2021 (as all applications before 2020 have been cleared), as regards pensioners with an insurance fund (including only from the former IKA, only from the State, only from the former OAEE, etc.) and successive insurance. (eg first IKA and then Public, first OAEE and then IKA etc.). Together they will be given retroactively, depending on the waiting time (from the month of submitting the pension application up to one month before the month of pension payment).

Immediately after, in the Autumn of this year, e-EFKA will step on the “gas” for the pending supplementary pensions, together with their retroactive ones, but there is still no specific timetable for completing their liquidation.

By December of this year, e-EFKA has announced in its announcement that all pending parallel insurance applications will have been cleared (eg IKA insurance and OAEE at the same time, etc.).

More detail:

* Pending pensions from a fund and successive insurance

According to the latest e-EFKA bulletin, approximately 61,000 overdue pension applications were pending in June. There are now no pending applications for the period 2016-2019. It has also remained below 9% of 2020 applications and below 20% of pending 2021 pensions.

These applications will be paid by the end of August. Overall, according to his information Capital.gr EUR 68 million will be paid in August.

* Pending supplementary pensions

As soon as the front of pending main pension applications (of a fund, successive and parallel insurance) is decisively closed, e-EFKA will emphasize the drastic reduction of pending supplementary insurance pensions as well. First of all, only the cancellation of all overdue main pensions gives impetus to the issuance of supplementary pensions, as an inflexible condition for the issuance of a pensioner’s supplementary pension is the issuance of his main pension.

In addition, e-EFKA will “run” a fast track process for supplementary pensions as well (ie as with the main pensions) from next autumn.

Also, 200 lecturers are about to be transferred from issuing main pensions to issuing supplementary pensions. Thus, around 300 rapporteurs will deal with the issuance of supplementary pensions (compared to 100 employed today) and around 300 rapporteurs will deal with the main pensions (compared to 500 currently employed).

Finally, the employment of certified accountants and lawyers, who are employed with the issuance of main pensions, and the issuance of auxiliary pensions, is foreseen.

At the same time, it is recalled that all applications for supplementary pensions can be made digitally, i.e. through the electronic services of e-EFKA.

* Pending main parallel insurance pensions

The process of issuing parallel insurance pensions is “running” at a fast pace after the operation of the appropriate software in the e-EFKA services at the end of last month.

The first priority is to “run” applications that are submitted from July 1, 2022 onwards. As e-EFKA itself announced, with this new software, the new successive and parallel insurance pensions that have been recently issued will begin to be calculated in the first phase. This means that those applying for a parallel or consecutive pension after 1 July will not wait for their turn to be cleared, after all previous claims have been cleared first, starting with those filed from 13 May 2016. Instead, they will be given priority.

Then, within the current month, as the same e-EFKA announcement provides, the older applications will also “run”, that is, those submitted between May 13, 2016 – June 30, 2022. Those who have applied for parallel insurance pensions for the above period have received the first pension from the basic insurance fund during the previous period.

According to the e-EFKA, the performance of the corresponding increases (i.e. increases to the already paid pensions from their first basic fund and retroactive to the beneficiaries) will be completed within 5 months, i.e. by the end of December 2022.