USR MP Claudiu Nasui, former Minister of Economy, says that the Bolojan Government should try to cut all special pensions, ”otherwise it will only undermine its own declared goals”.

In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Nasui shows that total special pensions have increased from 6.3 billion RON in 2016 to 17 billion in 2024 (about 1% of GDP). An increase of 170%, well above inflation, he adds.

„‘Do you know why? Because special pensions do not depend on the retirement point, but are also indexed to inflation and wage increases in the sector they come from. State salaries increase, so do special pensions. The great advantage of special pensions is not only the large amount, generally several times higher than for normal Romanians, but the fact that you can retire much earlier and that the pension increases faster. In the Ministry of Interior, for example, the average retirement age is 50 years and two months. And the average pension, almost triple the average pension of Romanians in the normal system. The problem is not that they are high. The problem is that they are paid from taxes and duties by the rest of Romanians,” he claims.

According to him, the only Government that has managed to cut special pensions in Romania so far was the one led by Emil Boc.

„But his approach was not selective, like that of the current Government. He did not choose just one category of special pensions to cut and that was it. Instead, he had a unified approach against all special pensions. And he partially succeeded. He cut them all, except those of the magistrates who won at the CCR then. If the goal is to cut special pensions, the Bolojan Government should try to cut them all. Otherwise, it will only undermine its own declared goals,” the USR deputy believes.AGERPRES