This Friday, parliament rejected bills that seek to roll back to years prior to 2024 the mechanism that guarantees the first update of pensions in the year immediately following their granting.
BE and PCP projects were at stake: the first was rejected by the votes against by PSD, Chega and CDS-PP and the abstention of PS and IL, and the second by the votes against by PSD, IL and CDS-PP and the abstention of the PD.
Specifically, The BE project foresees that the rule will be retroactive to those who retired in 2022 and 2023years in which inflation was high. Already the PCP Project recommended that the measure “come into force as of January 1, 2019”and that the recalculation is done unofficially.
What is at stake is the fact that the law states that pensions granted in one year will only be updated for the first time in the second calendar year after they are granted, meaning that, in practice, anyone who retires in January 2023 will only see the value of your pension increase for the first time in January 2025.
At the beginning of this month, the Government approved a diploma (already promulgated by the President of the Republic) that eliminates this rule, guaranteeing that pensions will be updated in the immediately following year and making its effects retroactive to all pensions granted as of January. 2024.
The Livre and PAN projects were approved, which defend the updating of all pensions in the year following their granting, without expressly mentioning past situations.
Chumbado was also a Chega project on the conditions for granting the Solidarity Supplement for the Elderly.
The vote on this set of initiatives would end up causing a moment of tension, since the BE announced that it would present an oral declaration of vote, which led the leader of the PSD parliamentary group, Hugo Soares, to accuse the Left Bloc of resorting to this vote declaration mechanism only to prolong the debate on a project of yours for which you voted in favor.
Hugo Soares proposed that this issue be addressed at the leaders’ conference to put an end to situations that he described as “strange.”
The reading was not followed by the PS bench, since Pedro Delgado Alves argued that it is not necessary for the matter to be discussed at the leaders’ conference.
In his declaration of vote, José Soeiro, from BE, also used the word “strange” to find it strange that Parliament has not yet had access to a decree approved by the Government (and already promulgated) that modifies the law updating the pensions. ensuring that the first occurs in the year following its attribution, but only covers those who retired on or after January 1, 2024.
Source: Observadora
