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Parliament obligates National Social Security Institute to raise pensions by 11%

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The MPs obligated the supervisory board of the National Social Security Institute to support the revaluation of pensions by 11% as of 1 July this year.

Such a decision had already been approved by the supervisory board but one of the parliamentary groups demanded that parliament obligate it not to go back on its decision, BGNES news agency reports.

During a hearing at today’s extraordinary sitting of the National Assembly, caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev stated that the pensions granted until 31 December, 2023 will be raised by 11% as of 1 July, 2024.



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