PM Tudose: Pension Law underway, hardest law Romania can have

The pension law is in the works and "might be ready" next year, premier Mihai Tudose communicated Thursday night, specifying that this is "the hardest law" Romania can have at present. 

"The pension point is rising starting next year (...) - a 10 percent rise. The pension law is underway, maybe it will be ready next year, we will see how long its implementation will take and (...) the order in which it will be implemented. (...) It will be very difficult to process millions of cases, to recalculate. (...) Simulations are being carried out at the Labour Ministry, procedures are being conducted, the budget impact is being established, how fast we can do it, in how many stages we can do it and how long it will take so that when we launch it for public debate to have the answers to all the questions, as it is a very demanding law, very serious, I believe it is the hardest law Romania can have today," premier Tudose stated for private TV broadcaster Antena 3. 

According to the head of the executive, there are" inequities to solve" in this domain. 

"In the end the pension is not charity that someone receives from the state. It is his/her right, his/her reward. And big slippages have occurred there. (...) Two people worked equally hard, during the same interval, in similar circumstances, with equal qualification, they retired at a two-year interval and they have incredible discrepancies as to their pensions. This cannot be. People must feel that they are treated as they deserve after a life's work," Tudose further said.AGERPRES .