Although the annual indexation of benefits takes place in March, already over 106,000 retirees received an additional raise.
According to the announcement of the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy, the new pensions are on average PLN 200 per month higher than the previous ones. Moreover, this does not exclude the possibility of indexation in March, when the same retirees will be entitled to an additional 5.3%. raises.
Who got a raise now? This is the so-called June retirees, i.e. people, who retired or received a survivor's pension in June in 2009-2019. As we have written many times in Business Insider Polska, they were harmed by the regulations of that time and their benefits were reduced because of it.
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However, the government has prepared regulations to compensate over 100,000 people. people who have suffered from these provisions.
The Ministry of Labor and Social Policy announced on Friday that ZUS had already counted PLN 106.3 thousand. such benefits, and the average increase amounted to PLN 200.
“Are you in this group? Remember – you do not have to submit an application. ZUS will calculate the benefit ex officio and determine its amount by March 31 this year.” – informs the ministry.
June pensions
What's the deal with June pensions anyway? For many years, people born in June, but after 1948, were unlucky. Or perhaps it should be said: they were treated unfairly by a faulty law.
If they retired in June (when they reached retirement age), they lost money. If they had submitted their application in May, for example, they would have received a benefit that was several percent higher.
The problem with the amount of payments resulted from an error in the system and the co-occurrence of annual and quarterly indexation. Hence, people who applied for a pension in June or those who were automatically entitled to a pension in June by ZUS – for example, instead of their current pension, were deprived of a very favorable indexation for the first quarter of a given year, unlike other insured persons. We write more about this here.
