The Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Kostis Hatzidakis, gave a strict answer, who, speaking on the radio station Real FM, noted that “various tele-lawyers have come out in recent days and talk about mistakes in pensions, because they are obviously losing clients from what we do”. “I’m not used to talking like that, but at some point I have to talk too!” mentioned features.
As he underlined, “for so many years, with the delays, they were making a lot of money. Now, they see that they are losing customers and they are telling the waiting retirees” do not go the way suggested by the government “. Indirectly, they are telling them” come to us “. “So I say to those who are waiting for retirees not to listen to them. They serve either party expediencies or their own pocket.”
“Today, we apply modern methods in EFKA and we will have finally dealt with the issue of outstanding pensions in the summer,” said the Minister of Labor, clarifying that the discrepancies are not a new phenomenon. Discrepancies have existed in the past and are corrected with the offsets provided anyway and now any discrepancies will be corrected with corresponding offsets. In any case in “trust” pensions and fast track pensions what is taken seriously is this “Therefore, there is a speculation that has no reflection in reality,” Mr. Hatzidakis clarified.
In more detail, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs issued an information note, noting the following:
At a time when EFKA is setting a historic pension record in May with more than 30,000 awards and the huge problem of outstanding pensions is coming to an end within the summer, some “pensioners’ representatives” and workers who made careers in television windows, investing in anxiety of the insured to receive their pensions on time, today they are deconstructing every reform in the Organization.
After fighting in every way the institution of certified accountants and lawyers and did not succeed, as, through this, pensions are now issued in less than 90 days, today they launch coordinated attacks on the new process of fast track pensions. They claim that these pensions are issued with serious mistakes and omissions and do not accuse the administration and employees of serious administrative negligence to the detriment of the insured.
Why do they choose the tactics of lies, misinformation and conflict? Because they are simply losing a significant portion of their customer base. The insured who wants to retire quickly no longer needs to pay a law firm with access and contacts within EFKA, to receive it.
With the new fast track procedure, the EFKA employee has three months to issue the pension and, if he does not do so, then the automatic issuance process is activated, taking into account the available data that EFKA has in its systems, but and the information provided by the insured.
With the fast track pensions and the final issue of the outstanding pensions within the summer, a para-system of dependence of the insured who was forced to pay exorbitant amounts as a “quick sign” for the issuance of their pension is finally “broken”. The pension will be issued on time and the insured does not have to pay a “pension specialist” to “run” it.
They are so anxious to deconstruct the fast track pensions, which distribute to the media cases of pensions issued with errors and omissions, which, however, were not issued through the fast track process! They were issued through the automation process, subject to additional checks and the issuance of an amending pension decision, when the recapitalization process is completed. It is a procedure that has been provided for by law for years and also applies to those cases of complex pensions issued directly by the rapporteurs. After all, the possibility of error or omission in the issuance of the pension has been foreseen as a possibility in the insurance legislation for decades. That is why there are the relevant re-audit procedures that ensure the exact amount of the pension in full and are activated even without an objection from the insured! The “supposed protectors” of the insured are well aware of this, but deliberately avoid emphasizing it in their television and radio appearances.
Especially, for fast track pensions, the obligation has been provided for the ex-post – in depth of three years – additional checks by the services of EFKA and correction of any mistakes, but also objections whenever the insured wishes. In this way, the citizen is fully secured and the possibility of being wronged by EFKA in terms of the amount of the pension he will receive is zero.
Those who fight with such fervor this new process should think that they are primarily fighting the thousands of insured who want to receive their pension in time. They are fighting the choice of the citizen to receive his pension immediately and, at the same time, they are defending the long-term delays against a serious financial benefit for themselves. And let them consider that between the personal and the social interest, the social always prevails “.
Source: AMPE
Source: Capital
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