Pensioners, widows of war and people with disabilities ”

« While the state institutions continue to dismantle on public money, the parties that negotiate the formation of a new government prepare an antisocial measure: the introduction of the health contribution (CASS) for pensions, including for pensions under 3,000 lei, for war widows and persons with disabilities.

It is a cynical plan of the system parties to cover the incompetence of previous governments by putting the burden on the most vulnerable shoulders« says Dorina Barcari, senator gold.

According to the senator, it is inhuman that, after a work life, in which you have contributed to the public pension system, to be taxed again to cover the holes left in the waste budget and corruption.

« According to information published in the press, USR is the promoter of this measure, and Ilie Bolojan, the prime minister, holds the same scenario.

Over 2.7 million Romanians have pensions under 3,000 lei, the minimum shopping basket being 4,050 lei.
Everything that is taxed under this threshold of the minimum basket represents the taxation of poverty.

Much of this money goes to medicines, invoices and sometimes rent. The food became a moft for the seniors forgotten by the Romanian state, given that, after last year’s recalculation, the pensions were frozen, despite the alarming growth of inflation.

In 2022, the government tried to impose CASS for pensions over 4,000 lei. The Constitutional Court declared the unconstitutional measure, and the amounts were returned to the pensioners.

To impose this tax again, and especially its extension to the pensioners with low incomes, represents a challenge of the Constitution and a mockery to the millions of Romanians who worked a life.

The Gold Party is categorically opposed to this proposal. We will fight against any form of pension taxation, allowances of persons with disabilities and any income below the value below the minimum basket (poverty area.

The state must stimulate the Romanian production and tax the revenues made in Romania by the foreign companies, not to rob the pensioners under the pretext of balancing the budget! ”, Said Dorina Barcari, senator gold.