Romanian Deputies Include Military Staff, Police Officers In Unitary Pension System

Deputies rejected the Labor Committee’s proposition to eliminate military staff, police officers and public servants with special status from the unitary pension system.

The Chamber of Deputies Wednesday held debates on the country’s pension bill, which should be adopted by the end of September.

Romanian Defense Minister Gabriel Oprea said in a press conference Monday that most military pensions will not be reduced, while some will even be increased, through recalculation under the country’s new public pension law.

Oprea said the increase will not be significant, but added, however, that any increase is important in times like these. He added the decrease in military pensions will not be significant either.

Oprea pointed out that keeping military pensions at the current level is the result of changes in the calculation base of these pensions, which includes all income earned by military staff, namely, bonuses, indemnities and certain compensations that haven’t been considered so far when calculating military pensions.

But for these changes in the calculation base, the minister stressed, military pensions would have been cut by 19% up to 69%. He also pointed out the recalculation of military pensions is in favor of military retirees who, he added, will only have to fill out an application form for the recalculation and the competent bodies will further fill out the income certificates.