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During a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis outlined the supplementary social security system reform scheduled to be voted in the Parliament in August. He said that the new system based on “Swedish model” will operate according to a pay-as-you-earn system of supplementary social security. The reform will …

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The Plenary of the State Audit Council has ruled that the cuts to main and supplementary pensions to be implemented in 2019 are against the Constitution and contravene the European Convention of Human Rights. Pension cuts are creditors’ top favorite austerity measure. The pension cuts the government and its creditors …

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Hundreds of pensioners gathered on Tuesday morning outside the Labor Ministry in Athens to protest the new cuts in their pensions. It is the second cut in supplementary pensions this year. As it was implemented retroactive, many pensioners were shocked in the first days of September see even more than …

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It was certainly a shock for thousands of Greek pensioners: beginning of august they saw their supplementary pensions to have undergone cuts from 21% up to 46%. Affected are 311,680 pensioners receiving pensions from 11 pension funds. The 3. bailout and the Pensions Reforms provided that if the sum of …

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I had this comment on KTG-blog the other day asking me ‘why Greeks do not pay taxes as the rest of Europeans’. It was a comment under the post with the title “Surprised? 50% of self-employed do not pay social security contributions to OAEE “. The question could also be …

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