Labour Minister Mihai Seitan yesterday said that cutting thespecial pensions of the aeronautic and diplomatic personnel, aswell as of the MPs and magistrates would translate into 100million-euro savings a year, but said nothing about cutting thepensions of the 146,000 former military, police and secret servicepersonnel, who together collect almost 700 million euros inpensions from the state. The employees of such institutions do notmake contributions toward pensions during their employment and donot get their pension from the public pension budget, but fromstate budget allocations to the ministries in question.
The pensions collected by the 146,000 former employees of secretservices, of the Interior and Defence Ministries, the SRI (RomanianIntelligence Service), SIE (Foreign Intelligence Service) and SPP(Guard and Protection Service), which are lower than 3,000 RON(i.e. most of them), will not be affected by the 15% cut theGovernment applies to all other pensioner types. Interior andDefence Ministries account for 94% of the total special pensions,135,000, while the rest are allocated to over 8,000 magistrates andMPs. A monthly special pension may exceed 9,000 RON.
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