“We are very close to completing the retrospective recalculations. In this phase we are now recalculating with law 4670, i.e. pensions for our fellow citizens who have a double right, either a widow’s pension and an old-age pension or from two different rights. As he noted, “It may be much shorter, but within a month at the latest, in November, the beneficiaries will get all their money.”
Pending pensions
Referring to the outstanding pensions, main and auxiliary, he clarified that, “today in the main pensions our outstandings are approximately 19,500, when in 2021 these outstandings were approximately 250,000”.
The overdue debts of the state to the citizens in the last 3-4 years were over half a billion euros, that is, the state owed the citizens in pensions well over half a billion euros. “Today this number is negative” emphasized Mr. Varveris.
And this is because, as he clarified, “these 19,500 are particularly problematic cases, either because they have large debts, or because there is some legal dispute, or because they are particularly difficult cases.
These 19,500 have a negative sign, i.e. the debts they owe to EFKA are more than what EFKA owes them.”
Regarding supplementary pensions, he said that “we are also at a historic low in supplementary pensions. At the moment the ancillaries, which can be issued and are due, are 32,500 pensions. So, a spectacular progress has been made.”
“When we talk about overdue dues of the agency, we always have to know that we are talking about backlogs that have exceeded 90 days. Today the average time to issue a pension decision for the main pension is just under 60 days. So, obviously, in order for the ancillary orders to be issued, the main decision needs to have been issued,” he noted.
Justifying the delays, he said that “the problem is relatively simple to understand because we have a longer delay in the auxiliaries. EFKA, as you know very well, is the amalgamation of several Funds”.
In the main body, we didn’t have too many Funds in our country, we had the IKA, we had the OAEE, there were also some other Funds, but they were limited.
To continue: “However, each professional branch also had an Auxiliary Insurance Fund. Of these, some were typed, some handwritten, some tabbed, their condition was very poor.
All of these have come to EFKA at some point, and there are about 100 Funds. So as you can see, everyone’s story is completely different.
So we had to manage a mess in this whole process until the systems were consolidated etc. and most of these files are handwritten.
The EFKA workers come, who, I must say, have made a huge effort to get to the point we have reached, so the workers come and they have to discover the wheel through the archive. This creates delays, as you understand. Imagine, when we have consecutive insurance, that is, we have different auxiliary Funds, there the problem is constantly growing.
If you look at the figures, you will see a 30% reduction in adjuncts as well, but we will have a spectacular improvement when the major projects we have in progress in the organization are completed, which is the digitization of the paper archive, in which we are very well on our way, and of course the creation of the institution’s new Integrated Information System which will essentially unify all these procedures into a single procedure”.
Working pensioners
Regarding working pensioners, he noted: “There were several complaints about the counting of working pensioners. They are retirees who had made their retirement decision and started working again.
And they come at some point and say that I want a count of official documents during my work as a pensioner.
First of all let’s say that the software really didn’t exist, we hadn’t even dealt with it and the reason was that there was so much pressure on the main pensions to issue because people couldn’t get their pension. Counting the stamps of someone who is already getting a pension was a luxury.
But we have completed the software, and we already have the possibility to do this, whereas until now we did not have the possibility to do this. Anyone who wants to, should make an application to the EFKA, at the local address, in their area and ask to count his marks”.
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