In his statements after the meeting, the Chairman of the Labour Committee, Andreas Kavkalias expressed regret in relation to the information received by the members of the Committee, according to which it is noted that the examination of applications is still pending, submitted since 2015 either for statutory pension, social pension or low pensioners' allowance in Cyprus and concerning Cypriots who worked abroad.
According to the President of the Labour Committee, "this situation cannot continue", while stressing that "the price of the delays cannot be paid by the pensioners, who are left for a long time without any income".
He said the main reason for these delays has to do with the fact that there is a long delay in the response of the Greek authorities regarding the information to be submitted to the competent authorities of the Republic.
In any case, he said, "we have stressed that the price of any delays cannot be tolerated, which may be linked to any problems internal to Greece, but also to other issues related to the regulations governing the issue."
In any case, he said, "we have stressed that the price of any delays cannot be tolerated.
Kavkalias said the members of the relevant committee of the House have agreed that they will come back to examine the issue in a period of two to three months to see the progress made and the actions that will be taken to resolve the problem.
EDEK MP Andreas Apostolou[/B] said that there is a delay by the relevant departments in Greece to send specific information to the Social Insurance Fund of Cyprus in order to calculate the pension they are entitled to receive from Cyprus.
As Apostolou noted, the proposals of the members of the Labour Committee have two directions, one of which concerns a appeal to be made through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Embassy of the Hellenic Republic in Cyprus, in order to request the shortening of this procedure.
"We will have to see how the issue is solved immediately," he said.
He also said that they have made a specific proposal, concerning the Deputy Ministry of Social Welfare and the support plan for low pensioners, adding that they have requested that their proposals be taken to the Deputy Minister and that the meeting that the relevant committee will have with her on 7 June will consider whether the plan can be amended, so that these people can start receiving some amount of the low pensioner's allowance until a decision is made to approve their pension.
Source: CNA
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