Thousands of parallel insurance pensions are unfrozen

Of Dimitris Katsaganis

Finally, the waiting of up to six years for thousands of retirees with parallel insurance is being prepared by e-EFKA from next month.

And this is because according to his valid information Capital.gr by competent executives of the insurance super-body, at the end of this month the software will be ready with which will be calculated close to the 55,000 outstanding pensions of parallel insurance.

This will increase, depending on the years of insurance and the income of each insured, the already paid pensions that come from the first insurance fund.

The specific surcharges are pending from May 2016, so they will occur retrospectively for the beneficiaries who are even older than 6 years.

The payment of the surcharges together with the retroactive ones is expected, according to the same sources, to start from next month, in July.

However, officials of the funds report to Capital.gr that the surcharges and their retrospectives will not be given only in order of priority, ie starting from the applications of May 2016, June 2016, July 2016 etc.

What is being considered to happen is to run in parallel, the liquidations of the pending applications based on their “age” together with the liquidations of the most recent and in particular, those applications which will be submitted after the installation of the appropriate software from the end of the current month.

The weapon for the quick liquidation of both the old and the upcoming applications for parallel pension will be the new “regime” of fast track issuance in general of the outstanding pensions.

It should be noted, however, that the “stock” of pending parallel retirement applications is not included in the total “stock” of overdue pending retirement applications, as the latter applies only to applications to an insurance fund and in cases of successive insurance.

The last “stock” of pending applications, according to the latest report of the Commission, should be eliminated by the end of August 2022, as the government received a 2-month extension.