ZAGREB, 23 August, 2022 - Labour and Social Policy Minister Marin Piletić said on Tuesday that the government has seen that pensions are not adequate, which will be dealt with through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, and he announced a package of aid measures for the autumn as well as one-off payments to pensioners.
Speaking about the impact of inflation on pension allowances, the minister said that they had increased by slightly more than 10% since 2019 due to inflation and with such pension indexation.
"Given the rise in prices in the second half of 2022, we expect that as of 1 January, the adjustment will also be significant compared to this 6.18%, but regardless of pension indexation, the government has seen that the amount of pensions is not adequate and through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan has committed itself to raise the lowest and family pensions," Piletić told the RTL television.
The minister also said that with the autumn package of measures and interventions, the government wanted to make it easier to weather the autumn and winter part of the year. It will do this by providing additional one-off payments to pension recipients in order to take care of socially at-risk citizens who are beneficiaries of the guaranteed minimum benefit.
Also, they have already prepared a number of job-keeping measures and measures for supporting businessmen.
Asked what they are specifically, he said they included all that had been good and useful.
If we are talking about the energy aid for pensioners, we have a solution that we can prepare very quickly, put on the table, and if the government agrees, aid pensioners with lower incomes, Piletić said.
