The Movement of Pensioners of Euskal Herria (MPEH) has described as “rickety” the increase in minimum pensions approved because “not even” reaches 1080 eurosone of their main demands.

The group has valued this Monday, in these terms, and during the concentrations carried out in the capitals of the CAV and in other municipalities, Royal Decree Law 2/2023 approved by the Spanish Government, to reform the public pension system.

Before those present, different representatives of the movement have informed them that, in their opinion, this decree law has “too much title for so little content”they have prosecuted.

From his perspective, although this royal decree incorporates “certain improvements, it is part of a reform process that is cutting pensions and rights of pensioners”. Some reforms have continued, which, like that of 2011, “should have been repealed” but which, in this decree, are perpetuated”.

For the platform of Basque pensioners, although the increase in minimum pensions is “positive”, the increase “is meager” and It does not even reach 1080 euros.

For all these reasons, they have announced that they are not giving “the battle for lost” and urge the Spanish Government and political parties to “take advantage” of the parliamentary procedure to establish, “immediately”, throughout 2023, and with retroactive effects to January, the minimum pension of the pensioner at 1080 euros per month and in fourteen payments.

The MPEH demands a “substantial improvement in the minimum individual non-contributory pension, which will have as a reference multiplying by 0.75 the poverty threshold of a single-person household each year until 2027, so it would go from being 484 euros in 2023 to 510 euros in 2024.

The pensioners conclude in their statement that “This is not the reform that we have been demanding in the streets for more than five years”for which they have confirmed that they will continue in their fight and in defense of their table of basic demands so that those 1080 euros of minimum pension, an annual compensatory payment for the loss of purchasing power, the 100% widow’s pension and the repeal of the cuts from the 2011 reform are included in the parliamentary process.

Source: Eitb

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