The Plenum of Parliament passed a unanimous law regulating the issue of widow's pension in case a couple divorces and remarries.
Specifically, in the event of the death of a state or public sector employee or state official who has entered into more than one marriage with the same person, the duration of each such marriage shall be taken into account for the purposes of paying a widow's pension and calculating the five-year period required by the basic legislation for the payment of such pension.
Speaking before the plenary, rapporteur Panicos Leonidou said that the law is an attempt to fill the gaps in the legislation and restore an injustice particularly to those who have entered into civil marriage and cohabitation.
"We are attempting," he added, "to restore an injustice where a couple divorces and then remarries and one of them is not entitled to a widow's pension." He also said that in canon law, in such a case it is already considered a single marriage and not a separate one and that is why they are trying to make the legislation uniform."
Source: CNA
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