Interview with the man who created the special pensions, on Tuesday, from 11.00, at Hotspot Live

Valeriu Stoica, former Minister of Justice and author of the law that introduced the special pensions for magistrates, will talk on Tuesday, from 11.00, to the Hotspot Podcastul on Hotnews, on how a system became a symbol of inequality in Romania. The former minister of the CDR government participated, on Friday, invited by Nicușor Dan, at the meeting of the president and the prime minister with the representatives of the institutions in the judicial system.

• The political podcastul Hotspot is made by journalist Laurenciiu Ungureanu, is broadcast live and can be watched on the hotnews.ro website, on YouTube and Facebook. The main statements are transmitted in livetext format.

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The number of beneficiaries of service pensions, the so -called “special pensions”, exceeds 11,637, and most – over 5,624 – are magistrates, the data centralized by the National Public Pensions (CNPP) shows. Their average service pension is 25,214 lei / gross (over 5,000 euros). The amount is more than 9 times higher than the average national pension, in the amount of about 2,800 lei.

It all started almost three decades ago, in 1997, when the Liberal Valeriu Stoica initiated the law that introduced the pensions for magistrates. At the time of adoption, the pension was thought of as a guarantee of the independence of the magistrates, a mechanism meant to protect them from external influences and corruption. At that time, the salaries in the judiciary were modest. The law offered a compensation: a pension calculated according to the last salary, not contributions. The law has been politically supported as part of the Reforms Package Required for EU accession.

Subsequently, the normative act was modified several times: the calculation base included the bonuses, the possibility of early retirement, and the value of pensions increased considerably.

In 2004, Rodica Stănoiu (PSD minister) changed the basis of calculation from the net income to gross income with all possible bonuses. In 2005, Monica Macovei (Minister of Justice in the Tariceanu Government) introduced the anticipated retirement without age, if there were 25 years of seniority. Today, the pension of a magistrate can far exceed the income from the activity.

Valeriu Stoica will talk, at the hotspot, about the calculation of pensions to gross income, about the non -taxable daytime and bonuses that have swollen pensions and about the decision of the Bolojan government to drastically clap the whole system.

Valeriu Stoica will also answer some of the questions asked by HotNews.ro readers. You can send the questions in a comment to this article, and the moderator will select some of them and ask the guest. Other questions from the public will be able to be transmitted live, in the YouTube comment section.

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