Increased more than 36 thousand pensions – society

The recalculation of the reforms results from the annual publication in the “Diário da República” of the wage updating coefficients that serve as the basis for pensions and which was published only last week. It is now a question of updating the values ​​that have been used to allocate, since the beginning of the year, about 30 thousand Social Security pensions, and more than six thousand of the Caixa Geral de Aposentações, which have achieved poison An official source from the Ministry of Social Security.

The pensions granted from now on will already be calculated based on the published decree, which updates wages according to inflation for the year 2023. The remaining pensions that will have to be recalculated and will be entitled to retroactive payments will have to be paid. Defines it poisonin August by Social Security and in October by Caixa Geral de Aposentações.

The same government source stated that the Ministry of Social Security, led by María do Rosario Ramalho, “is making every effort to ensure that pensions are updated as quickly as possible,” explaining that instructions have already been issued “to the services to do so.” “The technical changes necessary so that the update of pension values, accompanied by retroactive payments to January, can be implemented in the shortest possible time.”
He added that in the month of the update, “payments will be made retroactive to the entire month of January.”The transactions were supposed to have already been published, but, as happened in previous years, they were published late again, after a warning from economist Eugenio Rosa. For example, pensions granted in 2022 were not recalculated until April 2023 – more than a year later -, with pensioners receiving payments retroactively to January 2022.

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