When will the outstanding pensions be wiped out – new timetable

By Dimitris Katsaganis

The goal of zeroing out overdue applications for main State pensions has been moved to the end of October, according to information from Capital.gr. This means that it will receive a two-month extension, as it is not technically possible to fulfill it until the end of this month. The reason for about 15,000 applications.

In order to unblock the relevant process, a plan to de-escalate the pending issues is being implemented in collaboration with the General Secretariat of Public Administration Information Systems of the Ministry of Digital Governance, with the aim of creating a fully automated issuance process.

Finally, based on July data, overdue main pensions were limited to 56,000. However, as already announced, the number of pending pensions that can be issued is much lower and is estimated at 36,000, a large part of which has already been issued within August.

According to e-EFKA’s clarifications, there are approximately 20,000 pension cases that are judged to be potentially inflexible or are expected to be rejected. These cases concern about 11,000 applications, where no pension right is established by law, 2,000 applications with debts above the limits, which have not been settled, 1,000 cases with open court pending cases with the EFKA and 6,000 applications that lack a medical opinion.

According to the latest available data of the Electronic National Social Security Agency (e-EFKA), which were made public, 95% of the main pensions, whose applications were submitted from 2016 until July 31, 2022, have been issued.

According to the body, this percentage is expected to increase further with the integration of the August data and the liquidation of potentially inelastic or rejected pension applications.

In fact, e-EFKA reports that in July a new record was set in the issuance of pensions with 30,200 awards and emphasizes that the schedule for the issuance of the last overdue pensions, which remain, is progressing without delays, with an implementation horizon of the end of the summer.

It is recalled that the outstandings for the years 2016-2018 have already been zeroed, as well as the outstanding main pensions submitted in the year 2019. At the same time, the outstanding pensions for 2020 are also being zeroed out, considering that, at the end of July, 95 had been cleared .6% of the applications submitted, while, for 2021, the corresponding percentage reaches 85.2%. Finally, for 2022, 82% of the applications submitted, during the first five months of the year, have already been issued, an element which, as the agency points out, proves the significant acceleration in processing new applications, an acceleration which in many cases allows a pension to be issued even within 60 days.