Pension

In April, Bulgarian retirees with a pension ranging from BGN 300.01 up to BGN 369, which is392 000 people, will receive additional BGN 120 for food. That would cost the state budget about BGN 47 million. With this BGN 120 they will have the opportunity to buy whatever they need, the money is targeted specifically for food products.

The new year is expected to bring a slew of structural changes to labor relations and the social security system in Greece.

Ljubljana – The provision allowing employers to unilaterally terminate workers once they have met formal conditions for retirement, passed within the latest stimulus package in parliament on Tuesday, continues to raise dust as trade unions label it inadmissible and clear abuse of crisis legislation. Employer representatives are meanwhile welcoming it.

Ljubljana – The latest economic stimulus law, passed by the National Assembly on Tuesday, brings a series of income support transfers for groups including employees, pensioners, students and families.

EMPLOYEES

Ljubljana, – The National Assembly passed in a 50:7 vote late on Tuesday the government’s latest economic stimulus package. Measures to help business and income support for households are valued at up to 600 million.

Ljubljana – The parliamentary Finance Committee has approved the newest corona crisis package after two contentious provisions were thrown out by the opposition. The committee also okayed a coalition-sponsored provision denying aid to those violating government decrees despite warning that the amendment is unconstitutional.

Ljubljana – The Medical Chamber has warned about ramifications of the provision in the seventh stimulus bill that allows retirement of workers without a justified reason immediately after they meet the conditions for old-age pension. The chamber says that any such outflow of doctors and dentists would further jeopardise access to healthcare.

Some 1,985,000 workers in the private sector will see salary increases early in 2021, as a result of the reduction of social insurance contributions that takes effect this Friday, January 1, Labor Minister Yiannis Vroutsis told Alpha Radio on Monday.

Moreover, several positive changes in the country's social insurance system are also in the pipeline, he added.

Some 1.5 million self-employed professionals, freelancers and farmers have until January 31 to choose their social security contribution category, ranging from 210 to 566 euros per month, for payments toward their pension and healthcare.

Ljubljana – The National Assembly will convene an emergency session next Tuesday, on 29 December, to confirm the government’s latest economic stimulus package, the college of deputy group leaders decided on Monday.