In advance. The pension point could grow, from November 1, from 581 lei to 740-760 lei.
The surplus of the pensions budget from the end of the first trimester of this year is taken into calculation in order to resolve the problem of the work groups and for the early pensions growth, said, yesterday, the minister of labor, Paul Pacuraru.
The minister said that the surplus of the budget of pensions is close to 150 millions euro. The president of the National House of Pensions and Other Social Insurances, Mariana Campeanu, said, on Thursday, that for now no decision was made regarding an advanced pensions increase.
The value of the pension point was increased last year by the government with 30%, since November 1, 2007, and has increased again at January 1, 2008, to 581 lei. The next pensions increase was scheduled for January 1, 2009.