Eugen Tomac spoke, on Saturday, about the proposals formulated in the government program, which also talks about the indexation of pensions from January 1.
Eugen Tomac proposes the indexation of pensions PHOTO Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea
“Absolutely it will be correlated with inflation”Tomac said. “But after we will make a very serious evaluation so that it does not affect the state budget.”
He promised that in the first two months of his mandate, he would come up with a concrete proposal for the indexation of pensions.
The governing program proposed by Prime Minister-designate Eugen Tomac provides for the indexation of pensions from January 1, 2027, respectively that an evaluation is carried out in the first 1-2 months of the mandate, with a concrete figure based on the available budget space.
The measure comes in the conditions where the average monthly pension was 2,934 lei in the first quarter of 2026, down 0.8% compared to the previous quarter, while the average number of pensioners reached 4.92 million people, according to data published by the National Institute of Statistics. In the same period, the real average pension index, calculated as the ratio of the net nominal pension index to the consumer price index, was 97.3%.
Also, among the short-term measures are a subsidy of 2,250 lei/month for the employment of parents with three or more children, the operationalization of the system after the purchase of hardware; the state-pensioner relationship is modernized; logistic costs are reduced as well as the elimination of CASS for mothers.
Regarding the wage law, Tomac claims that “he wants to be honest and direct”. He stated that he had discussed several times with the interim Minister of Labor, Dragoș Pîslaru, stating that “the law, in its current form, cannot go to Parliament. It is essential to find a compromise formula so that wages do not decrease. In this form, it cannot go forward. We will talk with the parties this summer if we will make changes.”
When asked what will follow regarding the salary of high officials, Eugen Tomac mentioned that this must be discussed and that he is considering freezing some salaries.
According to the document, the labor market and social protection start from an unemployment of 6.1% (March 2026), compared to 3.1% in Poland and Bulgaria; AROPE 27.4% — 3rd place in the EU; 33.8% of children at risk of poverty; net average salary ~4,760 lei; 4.68 million pensioners with an average pension of 2,783 lei — below the minimum decent living basket (3,807 lei); 2.9 million pensions under 3,000 lei. State personnel expenses: 168.3 billion lei (8.2% of GDP) — the context that makes wage reform inevitable. Sources: INS, Eurostat, CNPP, MF — June 2026.
