2023-10-27 08:44:24
According to the PTB, following Siegfried Bracke, fourteen former Brussels deputies went to court to keep their overpensions beyond the Wijninckx ceiling. The Brussels Parliament Pension Fund must therefore appear before the First Chamber of the French-speaking Court of First Instance in Brussels, the far-left group indicated in a press release.
The issue of overpensions hit the headlines last April. In the Federal, Flemish, Walloon and Brussels Parliaments, the various deputies had decided not to apply the named legal ceiling to themselves.Ceiling Wijyninckx“. Different mechanisms then made it possible to exceed the maximum ceiling of 7,800 euros imposed on statutory civil service agents.
Following these revelations, the Brussels Parliament, like the other assemblies concerned, suspended overpensions and voted unanimously for the Pension Fund which manages the pensions of former Brussels deputies to adapt its regulations. According to the PTB, this is not to the taste of former deputies from the MR, PS, ex-cdH and Open Vld parties who are loudly demanding that they want to keep their privileges.
For Sofie Merckx, head of the PTB group in the Chamber, “totally disconnected“, they complain of having suffered prejudice, while they took advantage of their situation to grant themselves privileges, by granting themselves a much more favorable pension plan than any other worker. The group leader PTB in the Brussels Parliament, Françoise De Smedt, asked these parliamentarians to abandon their procedure, especially in a period where budget cuts and price increases for the Stib and water are planned for the majority of workers.
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