Base salary formula could affect retirees

It is planned to make a triple increase in July with a gradual increase in pensions, an increase in social participation and an inflation difference, but millions of retirees may be sentenced to a monthly pension of 7,500 liras, which is determined as the lowest pension. In the regulation, which is expected to reach Parliament, it is established that pensions will be increased on the base salary. In this case, it is questioned that the salary of millions of retirees whose root salary is between 3,500 and 4,500 liras and that the Treasury tops out by law at 7,500 liras, will remain at 7,500 liras, even if the salary increase is based on 100 percent . Earlier, former AKP Trabzon MP Salih Cora announced that the lower pension would be reflected in the base salary of the July increase.

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In the statement he made in March, Cora gave as an example that if the monthly root is 4,000 liras, the pension will be 5,600 liras, assuming an increase of 40 percent, but the pensioner will continue to receive 7,500 liras. Since the basic pensions do not increase to 7,500 lira, the money deposited in the account will not exceed 7,500 lira, even if the gradual increase, social participation and inflation difference are added to the pensioners who receive the lowest salary. Thus, pensions will remain 3,902 liras below the minimum wage, which was increased to 11,402 liras from July, and 2,873 liras below the 10,373 lira hunger limit announced by Türk-İş for June. DİSK Retired-Sen Chairman Cengiz Yavuz stated that the lowest monthly amount was 7,500 lira and there was no longer an increase in the amount, thus he emphasized that the July increases to root wages would not increase the lower pensions.

Retired family of 2 must not fall below the poverty line

Retirement-Sen Chairman Cengiz Yavuz pointed out that an inequality arose when the lowest pension was topped up at 7,500 TL, saying, “No improvement was made for those who received 7,510 TL.” Saying, “When we look at inflation and daily increases, these salaries are very funny,” Yavuz said that the total salary that comes into the household of a retiree family of two should not be below the poverty line. Yavuz said: “What needs to be done urgently is to raise the lowest pension to the minimum wage with the revision of the minimum wage.” Türk-İş announced the poverty line in June at TL 33,788.