“If there are any difficulties, we have a plan to deal with them and have sufficient financing,” Greek Deputy Health Minister Dimitris Stratoulis said on Monday during an interview with Athens-Macedonian News Agency.
Stratoulis confirmed that the restitution of previous losses on pensions “will be gradual and based on the numbers of economic recovery.”
Asked on how social security revenue will increase, he replied: “The coffers of the social security funds will be boosted if our plan for economic recovery, the restart of the economy, succeeds, which we believe it will.”
Stratoulis noted that the Ministry already has a list of big debtors to social security funds and plans to publish them. However, he stressed that the main thing is to use all legal and political means to collect these debts.
Regarding the administration of social security funds, he said: “Changes will be made, but in time, because our priority is to stop the destruction of pensions, the plans for new pension reductions and the increase of the retirement age as of 1/1/2015 provided by the Memorandum legislation.”
(source: ana-mpa)
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