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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 15-02-02
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[01] Government guarantees the pensions, Alternate Social Insurance
Minister Stratoulis says
[01] Government guarantees the pensions, Alternate Social Insurance
Minister Stratoulis says
ANA/MPA---"If there are any difficulties, we have a plan to deal with
them and have sufficient financing," Alternate Social Insurance Minister
Dimitris Stratoulis on Monday said in an interview with ANA-MPA WebTV.
Stratoulis confirmed that the restitution of previous losses on pensions
"will be gradual and based on the numbers of economic recovery."
Asked on how social securities' revenues will increase, he replied:
"The coffers of the social security funds will be boosted if our plan
for economic recovery, the restart of the economy succeeds, which we
believe it will."
Stratoulis noted that the ministry already has a list of big debtors to
social security funds and will publish them. However, he stressed that the
main thing is to use all legal and political means to collect these debts.
Regarding the administration of social security funds, he said: "Changes
will be made, but on time, because our priority is to stop the destruction
of pensions and the plans for new pension reductions and the retirement
age increase as of 1/1/2015 provided by the memorandum legislation."
The full interview is available at ANA-MPA website.
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