“Measure excludes 120 thousand people”: movement warns that 2023 pensioners are left out of Government update
The Justice Movement for Pensioners and Retirees (MJPR) warned today of an “injustice for 120 thousand pensioners from 2023”, saying that they are left out of the updates approved this week by the Government.
“The diploma will only take effect for pensioners from 2024 onwards, that is, in January 2025. Thus, it excludes around 120 thousand pensioners from 2023”, says the MJPR, in a letter sent to the Government, the President of the Republic and the president of the Constitutional Court.
At issue is the measure approved by the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, which ensures that pensioners who retired from January 2024 will have their pensions updated in 2025, a measure costing 42 million euros.
“2023 pensioners express their perplexity and indignation, which is an insult, an unacceptable humiliation in a Democratic State of Law”, they say, remembering that the period not covered was one of “very significant inflation, which did not occur until 2021 in that there were even years with negative inflation”.
For the movement, “2023 retirees were triple penalized: because they had a reduction in their pension in relation to their last salary, because they had income losses resulting from inflation accumulated throughout 2021, 2022 and 2023”, and also because “they did not have updating their pension in January of the following year, contrary to what happened with 2022 retirees”.
The movement considers that the Government “now claims to bring justice to pensioners, but punishes those from 2023 because it considers they no longer have any power to claim, violating the most basic rules of social justice”.
“There are no economic-financial reasons that can be invoked to justify this deliberate injustice”, the movement further claims, stating in a press release that the response to its demands would have “an estimated net cost of 68 million euros”.
The movement recalls that it already filed a complaint with the Ombudsman seven months ago and met with all parliamentary groups [GP]”having received solidarity and support, without any GP having presented any objection to this fair demand”.
“The Government and political parties with parliamentary representation have an obligation to find an urgent, fair and dignified solution”, and if they do not do so, “retirees of 2023 will express their indignation in various ways” within their reach, including “the vote”, says the movement.
