This Sunday, the PCP proposed a 7.5% increase in reforms and pensions by 2024, with a minimum update of 70 euros per pensioner, with the communist Secretary General calling for the mobilization of these citizens to put pressure on the government.
‘We are moving forward with the idea of a 7.5 percent increase in all reforms and pensions [em 2024], with a minimum increase of 70 euros for each pension and pension. This alone does not solve the entire problem, but it does make a decisive contribution to restoring purchasing power,” defended Paulo Raimundo, who visited the Watch Fair in Lisbon this morning.
In addition to this proposal, the PCP Parliamentary Group also announced this Sunday – in connection with the International Day of the Older Persons – a second bill aimed at guaranteeing “the right of workers aged 40 or over to receive discounts” in order to be able to choose for pension “without any penalty or reduction, regardless of age”.
Asked about his expectations that these proposals could be approved during the discussion of the 2024 state budget – to be presented on the 10th – Paulo Raimundo emphasized that “recent times have shown” that “when there is pressure, mobilization and involvement of the population and those affected, the government gives in.”
‘Sometimes it gives way, it comes halfway, it is insufficient, it is late, but it gives way. Our hope is this: that at the same time that we present the proposal in the Assembly of the Republic, that retirees and pensioners will adopt it as their own and mobilize around it, because if they mobilize, the government will have to give in,” cried he up.
In the bill regarding the increase in reforms and pensions in 2024, the PCP writes that this proposal “aims to follow a path to replace the lost purchasing power, between 2021 and 2024”.
The party wants “an increase in reforms and pensions in the year 2024 that will ensure an increase in all pensions and reforms by an amount corresponding to 7.5%, where the amount of the update may not be lower than 70 euros per pensioner”. whereas this is “a proposal of the most basic justice to effectively express the restoration of income and rights”.
In the second bill, the communists write that workers with 40 years of contributions, “if they decide to retire before the age of 66 years and four months, will face brutal reductions in the value of their pensions due to low wages and the application of the reduction factor imposed by the retirement age flexibility mechanisms’.
“It is neither fair nor socially acceptable that, after forty years of work, a person is forced to work to the limit of his strength, in order to survive until he reaches legal retirement age, in a situation characterized by a high degree of physical and emotional exhaustion. subjected to an intense work rhythm and when he completed 40 years of Social Security deductions,” the project reads.
Thus, the communists put forward the proposal that “guarantees the anticipation of the age of access to the old-age pension, without penalties, to beneficiaries who have earned 40 calendar years of income.”
During his visit to the Clock Fair this Sunday morning, the Communist Secretary General approached exhibitors at various stalls and repeated a question: “Can I leave a piece of paper for you? It is not to disrupt the business.”
For about an hour, Raimundo – who admitted to being a newcomer to this fair – distributed pamphlets advocating a general increase in salaries and pensions, and listened to employee complaints, some saying sales were weak or complaining about the costs of licenses.
Source: DN
