Moldovan authorities to increase one-off assistance provided to pensioners, low-income people

Chisinau, 10 September /MOLDPRES/ - The parliament approved a change of the state social insurances budget (BASS) in the first reading today.

Under the document, both the overall BASS revenues and expenses for 2020 will be increased by 232,714 thousand lei from 24,339,399.4 thousand lei to 24,572,113.4 thousand lei. Decision-makers will also increase the expenses dealing with the protection in case of temporary incapacity for work, proceeding from the level of fulfillment of these expenditures on the period of the first half of this year and, at the same time, from the increase of the allowance’s average size.        

The authorities will also increase the expenses for the protection of elderly people, including for the reason of increase in the number of applicants asking to reexamine the age-limit pensions for the beneficiaries who have a length of pensionable service of ten years, after fulfilling the right to pension, and of the number of applicants asking for survivor pension to pensioners servicemen and the people from the command staff and the interior affairs bodies’ troops, as well as of the increase in the size of the survivor pension.   

At the same time, the draft law envisages the increase in the sum of the spending dealing with the one-off financial support to the beneficiaries of pensions and state social allocations, triggered by the increase of the one-off assistance from 700 to 900 lei, as well as the biannual indexation of pensions.  

The BASS indexes for 2020 are harmonized with the indexes included in the draft law for the amendment of the state budget law for 2020, being coordinated with the International Monetary Fund.