Prime Minister Morawiecki, through “Super Express”, in connection with the signing by President Andrzej Duda of the amendment of two laws: the law on health care financed by public funds and the law on the reimbursement of medicines, expanding the list of people right to use free medicines, turned to senior citizens with the message that only the continuation of the PiS rule guarantees the continuation and development of programs for this environment.
We remind you that thanks to these decisions, the group of seniors aged 75 and over, entitled to free medicines from 2017, will be supplemented from 1 September this year by two groups: seniors aged 65 and over and children and young people up to the age of 18 . age.
Prime Minister Morawiecki has announced that free medicines (types of these free medicines for two new groups of patients will be specified in the Ordinance of the Minister of Health and they will be about 3,000 items for each age group) will now be available to as many as about 16 million people, and the “Free Drugs” program will cost about PLN 2.5 billion per year.
In this letter, Prime Minister Morawiecki reminds seniors of the exceptional extra financial support for this climate, which started from the first year of the rule of law and justice.
In turn, from March 1 this year, from March 1 this year, the indexation of pension and disability benefits was implemented, consisting of an increase in the amount and percentage, with the lowest benefit already amounting to PLN 1,588.44 (in 2015 it was this only 880 PLN).
Finally, the indexation of pensions and pensions in 2023 was set at 14.8% (the average inflation rate announced by Statistics Netherlands in 2022 was 14.4%), and the lowest guaranteed benefit increase was set at 250 PLN (Valorisation Percentage). .
Assuming the indexation rate of 14.8% and the lowest indexation amount of PLN 250, the lowest pension amounts to PLN 1588.44 gross as of March 1 (although at the lowest benefits the gross amounts are net amounts, which due to the increase in the tax-free amount PIT from PLN 3,000 to PLN 30,000, which means that those who receive benefits up to PLN 2,500 gross do not pay any income tax at all, but only health insurance).
For such a high indexation of pensions and disability pensions, an amount of no less than PLN 44 billion was secured in the 2023 budget. In comparison, last year about PLN 18.5 billion was allocated for the indexation of pensions and disability pensions.
The 13th pension has already been paid, which is already a permanent supplementary benefit of PLN 1,588.44 gross, and the 14th pension will be paid from 1 September in the amount of PLN 2,650 gross (ie PLN 2,200 net).
In total, therefore, together with both the extra benefits and the funds foreseen for the indexation of pensions and disability pensions in 2023, more than PLN 74 billion in additional funds will be sent to the pensioners’ environment (PLN 44 billion for indexation and more than PLN 30 billion PLN for the 13th and 14th pension).
Let us also recall that the funds allocated for pension increases in the last year of the PO-PSL government, i.e. 2015, were only PLN 3.6 billion (in previous years they were even lower), and for the 13th or 14th retirement under those governments, retirees could only dream.
During the United Right rule, another PLN 36 billion was already allocated to the living environment of pensioners in 2021, and almost PLN 44 billion in 2022 (amounts for indexation, but also for the 13th and 14th retirement), and in 2023, as I already mentioned, up to over PLN 74 billion.
So over the past three years, these extra funds have been 10 times, 14 times and almost 20 times respectively higher than the amounts paid to pensioners in 2015, and everything indicates that if the PO, God forbid, returns to power after the elections would come. in the fall of this year, the additional funds going to pensioners from 2024 will return to the level of only a few billion zlotys per year, because that is all the state budget can afford.
Prime Minister Morawiecki writes to senior citizens that the government of Law and Justice guarantees the continuation and development of social programs aimed at this environment in the coming years.
Firstly, because it is firmly entrenched in the electoral program of Law and Justice, secondly, because only this government guarantees an appropriate level of budget revenue, because opposition rule means the return of VAT, fuel and all other mafia, and a marked decrease of tax revenue.
Source: wPolityce