Govt has no idea how much it saved on special pension recalculation

The Government allocated 3.2 billion RON (800 million euros) in the 2011 State Social Security Budget (BASS) for payment of pensions to military and police personnel, as well as to former employees of secret services, yet it has no idea how much money (if any) it saved with the recalculation of these “special pensions”, which used to be confidential until recently. The Government announces the number of special pensions (of military, police and secret service personnel) for the first time – 156,000.

Labour Minister Ioan Botiș says he was not informed of the amount of pensions paid to such beneficiaries thus far, therefore he has no way of estimating whether pension recalculation led to savings or not. Only that the Government anticipated it would be able to save hundreds of millions of euros year as a result of pension recalculation.
“I have to say that I do not know, either. We got an amount and put it in the budget to be able to pay these pensions,” Botiș told ZF.