How to implement the new plan to accelerate the issuance of new pensions

By Dimitris Katsaganis

All retirement applications will be included in the “fast track” and “trust” status. That is, those that concern a fund, successive or even parallel insurance. Beneficiaries will also be those who have received a temporary pension or advance. This is reported by reliable sources of Capital.gr from the Ministry of Labor, explaining the new package of regulations aimed at accelerating the issuance of new pensions. The Minister of Labor, Kostis Hatzidakis, announced this package the day before yesterday from the podium of the 7th Delphi Economic Forum.

This package will include two basic interventions. First of all, the “fast track pensions”. This model will concern the applications that will be submitted, after the relevant regulation is adopted in the immediate future, ie after Easter.

The second intervention is called “trust pensions”. This model will apply to those already submitted, ie pending retirement applications.

In this area, ie in the already pending applications, there is special pressure on the government as it has committed until next June to eliminate the overdue retirement applications related to insurance in one fund and successive insurance. This is at a time when the relevant pending applications (excluding applications for parallel insurance, international insurance, etc.) amount to 75,000.

However, according to information from Capital.gr, both “fast track pensions” and “trust pensions” will apply to all types of applications (except those of international insurance), ie applications related to insurance in only one fund (eg only before IKA, only before OAEE, etc.), the successive, but also the parallel insurance. They will also apply to those who have received an advance payment and a temporary pension.

The same sources point out that the “fast track”, but also the “trust” pensions will be final.

As stated in Capital.gr, the spokesman of e-EFKA, Homeros Tsapalos, the new package of regulations for the acceleration of the issuance of new pensions “is not made to give pensions to those who are not objectively entitled”, but “to permanently unblock any are still pending today and in order not to create a stock of new pensions in the future “.

1. Fast track pensions

In relation to the “fast track pensions”, as Mr. Hatzidakis underlined, “from now on, EFKA will be obliged to issue pensions within three months, ie to complete the relevant control within this period. If the deadline This is not observed, then the competent services to issue the decision will have to rely on two facts: on the one hand the data contained in the electronic system ‘ATLAS’ for the insurance history of the applicant, on the other hand the additional data that he has provided for the time of his insurance. “That is, the control will be made on the basis of these data only and the pension will be issued in record time. This is an innovation not only for the Agency, but also for the public administration as a whole “.

2. Trust pensions

Regarding the “pension of trust”, as Mr. Hatzidakis stated, the process will be even faster: For the pensioners who are already waiting, the pension will be issued based on the data of the ‘ATLAS’ system, the data that have themselves submitted to EFKA, but also on the basis of their statements for additional insurance time, even if they have not submitted evidence for them, that is, without further control, based on the statement-response of the EFKA will retire, which is why the process in this case will be even faster and will be based on the trust of the state to the insured.

It is noted that in both cases (“fast track pensions”, “trust pensions”), EFKA will carry out ex-post checks to determine whether the information stated by the insured is correct and to proceed with the necessary adjustments of the pension amount. , if it is necessary. Mr. Hatzidakis clarified that in case of submission of false information, the corresponding penalties will be imposed.