pensioners

The Parliament has passed today a bill on the taxation of all special pensions by up to 85%, with the draft being endorsed by all parliamentary parties, but mostly following an agreement sealed between PSD and PNL. There has been an…

Several protesters have booed PM Viorica Dăncilă while she was meeting the pensioners in Constanta county on Sunday, while others applauded her and chanted "PSD". "No more special pensions", "Thieves", "You are a lying illiterate",…

The law on the public pension system, re-examined after the Constitutional Court ruled it is unconstitutional, has been rejected by the Senate on Wednesday, after failing to get the needed votes. 67 senators voted in favour and 22…

Liberals will sue the Social Democrat Party (PSD) for concluding a protocol with the state-owned Romanian Post through which the ruling party is distributing PSD electoral flyers to the pensioners. National Liberal Party chairman Ludovic…

After the ruling Social Democrat Party has criticised him for refusing to promulgate the 2019 budget law, President Iohannis has convened another press conference today after the one on Friday, stating that PSD is to blame for the budget…

The number of retirees was in Q4 2017 of 5.22 million, up by 5,000 persons, the National Statistics Institute (INS) informs in Wednesday. The average monthly pension was of RON 1,132. The ratio between pensioners and employees was 9…

The brother of presidential adviser Andrei Muraru says PSD leader Liviu Dragnea has built relations with foreign allies, among them Israel, adding that lately the Hungarian authorities were informed by the social-democrat chairman that…

In Q3, Romania had 5.251 million pensioners, down by 27,000 persons against the similar period last year, whereas the average pension was of RON 1,106, the National Statistics Institute (INS) informed on Monday. Against the previous…

The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Romania criticizes the Government decision to reduce the mandatory contribution to Pension Pillar II from 5.1% to 3.75% as of 2018, and claims that the fall in the relative value of the contribution…

Pensioners ranked second, after employees, by level of monthly income, last year, according to the National Statistics Institute (INS). One employee had an average monthly income of RON 1,316.9 per month, followed by a pensioner with RON…