ROME (Reuters) – The Council of Ministers approved today a bill that allocates 2.18 billion euro to 3.7 million retirees to pay a bonus as compensation for blocking the indexing of pensions in 2012 and 2013, considered illegal by the Constitutional Court.
said on Wednesday Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the end of the CDM.
“We will use the ‘pink brackets’ contained in Def, or 0.1% of GDP, a total out of 2,180 billion euro, to just under 3.7 million pensioners,” Renzi said in a press conference after the government meeting.
They stay out of the audience of retirees who on Aug. 1 will receive the one-time about 670,000 people, whose pensions exceed more than six times the minimum, as the premier said.
Renzi also announced a drag effect of the judgment of the Court, it shall be revised upwards also the indexing of pensions up to 3,000 euro in 2016.
The decree also provides for the advance of the date of payment of pensions to the first day of the month.
(Roberto Landucci)
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