At least “22,000 retirees from banks should be excluded from the bonus of more half-pension” that the government will give in October, as these bank employees are not in the social security system or have only withheld a small part of their salary into the system, which was previously part from private pension funds, Cristina Damião, coordinator of contractual and legal services at MAIS Sindicato do Setor Financeiro, told Dinheiro Vivo. Yesterday, Labor Minister Ana Mendes Godinho was emphatic when she said that “all social security pensioners and Caixa Geral de Aposentações are covered by the measure”. That is, retirees who have withheld from another system, such as pension funds, should be left out.
Bank unions – MAIS, SBC and SBN – today meet the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Ana Mendes Godinho.
Still, Mendes Godinho will meet at the Department of Labor next Tuesday, the 20th at 9:30 a.m., with MAIS Union, the Central Bank Employees Union (SBC) and the North Bank Employees Union (SBN). ) to provide clarity. the government diploma. The three union platforms “will not allow retired bank employees to be subject to social segregation, and the same measures will not be applied to them, in their entirety and in accordance with the principle of equality to which all entities are bound,” according to a statement yesterday. media sent statement.
If the government does not correct the decree, which is silent on the situation of thousands of pensioners from banks who are in other regimes or in a mixed situation, whose pensions are paid for a small part by social security and the rest by pension funds, “The trade unions will ask the competent authorities, such as the President of the Republic, parliamentary groups and the Ombudsman, to start the process of sequential inspection of the legislative package with the Constitutional Court,” said Cristina Damião.
For the trade unionist “it is a huge injustice that some people enjoy more half-pension in October and others do not.” The situation of retired bank employees is very specific. “Until 2011, everyone cashed in the bank’s pension funds. Only from that year did the new bank employees, if they wished, join the social security system,” explains Cristina Damião to Dinheiro Vivo. So at the moment most retirees – in the case of MAIS members there will be more than 22,000, but the number could be more than 50,000 in the whole country – are either outside Social Security or the portion of the pension paid by this social security system is paid is very low”, says the union leader. And he gives examples of how the omission of these situations in the diploma can disadvantage these pensioners: “If the law remains as it is, it means that a pension of 900 euros of which only 100 euros comes from social security is only entitled to a bonus of 50% above 100 euros, i.e. this pensioner only gets 50 euros more.” If a pensioner has only withheld it from a bank pension fund, he may do not receive the extraordinary supplement that the government gives on pensions up to 5318 euros.
The Minister of Labor and Social Security yesterday acknowledged the existence of such realities. On the sidelines of Greenvolt’s presentation of the “Inclusive Communities” program, in Cascais, Ana Mendes Godinho admitted that “there are people with mixed situations with pensions arising from bank and social security pension funds, the situations are different”. He continued: “There are people who are not covered by the social security pension system and who have pension fund systems that stem from their own employment history”.
Source: DN
