“The Government must clarify that the study was based to apply this increase of 3.5% [...] and must come quickly clarify all this and there has to be, from now on, the involvement of workers in the management of ADSE for the sake of transparency and for the sake of clarity in the democratic management of ADSE, “he told Lusa the Socialist MEP, Isabel Santos.
The statements of Socialist MEP arise following an audit of the Court of Auditors (TdC) the workers’ social protection system in public functions (ADSE), according to which the increase in the discount rate ADSE from 1.5% to 3.5% in 2014 was “excessive” and resulted from the need of the government to reduce public funding, following the dictates of the troika.
The Court criticizes the fact that the government has imposed this increase without preparing a study on the sustainability of ADSE which, had been drafted, would have concluded that “considering 2013 costs that can be financed with discount [...] for 2014, only an approximate discount rate of 2.7% would be required to fully cover those costs. “
The TdC still alert to the fact that this increase does not benefit quotizados but the state, which “is who benefits from the use of this surplus without any remuneration paid to ADSE.”
According to Isabel Santos, “it is the workers to ensure their contribution to the financing of this subsystem exclusivity, there must be a well their participation in the management not to happen what happened now with the government to launch an excessive increase in the share of workers in the subsystem “that is to serve” for the consolidation of public accounts “.
However, the Ministry of Finance explained that the revenue increased due to the increase to 3.5%, discounts for ADSE reverts in full to the beneficiaries and not “for the state coffers “.
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