A cap on the golden pensions of public officials is coming. The new limit will apply to all treatments, including those already liquidated when the Stability law comes into force, but with effect from 2015. This is the content of an amendment by the Government and a sub-amendment by the rapporteur to the maneuver approved last night by the House Budget Committee.
The proposed amendments aim to remedy a flaw in the Fornero reform, which allows some professional categories to stay in work beyond the old-age pension limit, acquiring the requirements to cash a check even higher than the last salary, despite the transition from the system remunerative to contributory. Above all, the councilors of state and the Court of Auditors would benefit from it. Among the other categories involved are magistrates, doctors, and university professors.
The amendment establishes that “the total amount of the pension treatment cannot exceed what would have been paid” with the rules prior to the Fornero reform, ie with the salary system. In practice, the Government limits the social security allowance of these categories to approximately 80% of the last salary.
The rapporteur's sub-amendment, on the other hand, is the result of a compromise to resolve some difficulties that arose from the original measure filed by the Executive, which did not give time indications, leaving room for interpretative doubts on the retroactivity of the provision. This could have given rise to numerous appeals for unconstitutionality, because rights already acquired by the workers would have been at stake.
As for the numbers, the Government awaits the final calculations of the State Accounting Office. According to Codacons, the leak would affect 160 people, with a cost to the public coffers of 2,6 billion over 10 years. The savings produced by the new law will be allocated to an Inps Fund for the adjustment of pension categories that will be defined by the Prime Minister.
