The whole new plan for digital pensions – When they will be given

By Dimitris Katsaganis

The government’s goal of eliminating overdue retirement applications by the middle of next year is in the final stages of implementation.

A key – though not the only – “lever” in this direction is the digitization of the application and pension procedures. To do this, the appropriate software must be installed on e-EFKA.

More detailed, according to his secure information Capital.gr by competent executives of the funds:

– Within December, the software for transfer of supplementary pension due to death will run, as well as the software for granting supplementary pension due to disability.

– Also, the “Atlas” system includes disability pensions.

– Within January, the software for parallel and successive insurance will come. The reason for the insured who for example had IKA insurance and at the same time OAEE (parallel insurance) and for those who had first IKA and then OAEE.

– At the same time, old-age pensions for employees (formerly IKA) will be included in the “Atlas” system.

– After February, freelancers will be able to apply digitally for retirement. Especially for this category, it is crucial to clear the landscape of debts over 20,000 euros, as without this clearing their retirement can not proceed.

It is reminded that the process of applying for a pension has already been digitized for the former OGA insured (s.s. farmers, stockbreeders), but also for the beneficiaries of widow’s pensions.

It should be noted that this (digital) mechanism does not apply to retirees who have submitted a retirement application before the relevant process has been digitized.

It concerns those who will apply for retirement after the relevant platform of their fund has been “opened”.

This means that the well-known procedure will apply to retirees who have applied for a pension before the opening of their fund’s digital platform.

The same sources clarify that the procedure that will be followed for each pensioner (digital or not) has only technical content and does not concern his pension right which is examined based on the same institutional framework.

Based on the time of submission of the pension application, according to the planning of e-EFKA, by the end of February all the applications submitted before 2019 will be cleared, while immediately after, with a limit in June, the remaining pending applications will be cleared, the which had become overdue by then.