SYRIZA: The government should immediately cancel the Tsakloglou circular

To cancel the Tsakloglou circular for the reduction of widowhood and invalidity pensions, “which is a severe blow to the weakest pensioners and is a choice of the Mitsotakis government”, demands in a statement the competent head of SYRIZA, Marilizako Xenogia.

In its announcement, it states: “Mr. Tsakloglou, panicked by the social outcry, a week after the issuance of his unacceptable circular, was forced to partially declare that the reduction of widowhood and invalidity pensions will apply from now on. in this way that there will be reductions, which can reach up to 268 euros per month, a reduction that Mr. Hatzidakis described as “fair.” Ms. Xenogianakopoulou Mr. Hatzidakis and Mr. Tsakloglou falsely claim, in order to justify the unjustified “and” explains that for widowhood and disability pensions, the applicable Petropoulos circular of 2016 explicitly stated that there is no ban on receiving a second national pension. Petropoulos’ circular had also been checked by the institutions, in the context of the then strict memorandum supervision, and had been considered to correctly interpret the content of law 4385/2016. The Petropoulos circular was implemented from 2016 under the SYRIZA government until today, that is, by the ND government for two and a half years. It is now being amended by the government to make cuts. ”

He goes on to say: “An obvious explanation is that from January 1 this year, the implementation of the capitalization system of the Hatzidakis law will begin, which delivers the Auxiliary Insurance to private investment interests, at the same time causing a huge, and increasing in the coming years, budget cost. to cover the costs of setting up and operating the new Fund / TEKA, as well as the budget gap, was the social dividend and low-income pensioners.The second sacrifice is widowhood and disability pensions.In addition, the Tsakloglou circular also adversely affects pre-2016 “who will never see increases in their pensions, as the so-called personal difference grows, as well as farmers who have retired from 2017 onwards.”

He concluded: “In a period of rising pandemic, precision and social crisis, the Mitsotakis government is violently redistributing at the expense of the weakest, the low-income and the widow and the disabled pensioners. Mitsotaki “and asks” to finally stop the misinformation, mockery and impoverishment of retirees! “.