2023-12-01 06:00:00
Wednesday, just following the plenary of the Walloon Parliament, a general meeting of the Pension Fund for Walloon Deputies
was organized around a future new regulation, which definitively puts an end to overpensions. The text will be submitted for debate and vote on December 13.
The Walloon Parliament thus joins the Chamber, where everything started last spring.
Coming into force from January 2024
In March and April 2023, we learned in stages that pension supplements were paid to former Speakers of the House, senior civil servants and parliamentarians.
It quickly appeared that the other assemblies were also concerned: everywhere, deputies put into practice the regulation, voted by them, which authorizes them to exceed the Wijninckx ceiling by 20% (the legal maximum amount of pensions in the public sector, i.e. €7,813 gross per month).
In Wallonia, from April, the Office of the Walloon Parliament suspended as a precautionary measure the payment of overpensions authorized since 2013. Note that the board of directors of the Pension Fund is made up of members of the Office of the Walloon Parliament. All political groups are represented there.At the end of June, the various assemblies tuned their violins on four points: “ Strict compliance with the Wijninckx ceiling, removal of the notion of “rents” (Editor’s note: the assembly regulations provide for an annuity in addition to compensation)the integration of vacation pay into the calculation of pensions and collaboration with the FPS Pensions
“, recalls the president of the Bureau André Frédéric (PS).“The draft new regulation is therefore not yet approved insists André Frédéric. It may be subject to modifications during the plenary on December 13. But if it is voted on that day, it will come into force on January 1, 2024.
“Thus signing the end of overpensions for former members of the Walloon Parliament.
26 overpensionsIn the House, 187 retired parliamentarians received a pension supplement. And in the Walloon Parliament? ” In April, there were 26 overpensions out of 99 payments, including 9 survivor’s pensions. Surpluses range from 1% to 20%
“, explains the president of the Walloon Parliament.And where the Chamber should make a saving of €2.5 million with the end of pension supplements, “I estimate that, for the Walloon Parliament, the economy should be around €450,000 per year
“, announces André Frédéric.Furthermore, is there any question of dissolving the Pension Fund for Walloon MPs to fully entrust management to the FPS Pensions? “There will still be collaborations with the FPS Pensions: we must enter into an agreement so that their services, which have access to all the data, can carry out checks and ensure that no one slips through the cracks. But no, the abolition of the MPs’ pension fund is not on the agenda continues the Walloon president.There is no criticism regarding it, apart from these excesses. Let us correct it. We found anomalies and fixed the problem.
“, he summarizes.
It is undoubtedly this point, among others, which will make the PTB react on December 13: in opposition, the group has in fact been demanding for months the dissolution of this Fund. Its group leader Germain Mugemangango also demanded, in the Accounting Committee, the amount of the shortfall for the finances of the Walloon Parliament in 10 years of payment of overpensions.
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