The reform of the Accounting Fund is ready, the supervising ministries approved the reorganization of the system yesterday.
What changes in detail? Accountants will be able to retire (old age) at 68 years, with a minimum of 40 years of service and in early retirement at 63 years, with a minimum of 20 years of service. This is the treatment envisaged for professionals registered from January 2013 where previously people retired at 65 with 30 years of contributions.
Another novelty of the maneuver is the increase in the contribution rates which, from the beginning of 2013, pass from 8% to 10%, and then increase by one point a year for the next 5 years up to 155 in 2018.
Basically, therefore, the reform provides for an increase in contributions and a reduction in pension benefits. "A bitter medicine - said Paolo Saltarelli, president of the national pension fund for accountants - necessary to guarantee the solvency of the institution over time and pensions for the new generations".
The compromise between the Cassa and the ministerial technical offices (which had raised a series of observations on the first draft of the text), after months of discussions, was reached and guarantees economic stability. Stability to which the obligation for accountants to register with the accountants' social security institution, which would be established by law, would also contribute. And Saltarelli welcomed this confirmation from the competent ministries.
The result achieved yesterday was obtained thanks to the elimination of the seniority treatment (replaced by the early and "penalized" old-age pension as it is calculated only with the contributory method) and by the fact that, for members enrolled after 2004 January 2004, the calculation of the allowance will have as a reference basis only the contributions paid. For those enrolled before XNUMX, however, the mixed regime remains in force.
