April pensions payable from Thursday
Social insurance pensions and allowances will be paid from Thursday for April, the union of pensioners (Ekysy) announced on Wednesday. The payments for low-income retirees,...
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House passes law incentivising early retirement in public sector
The House of Representatives passed a bill on Friday, giving incentives to public-sector employees to apply for early retirement without any reduction in their benefits,...
State primary teachers to meet on pension plan
State’s primary school teachers will discuss the pension plan on Saturday, teachers’ unions announced on Wednesday. The pension plan for all civil servants changed after...
Macron defies French unions over retirement age in pension reform
France’s government defied trade unions on Friday by including a contested clause on raising the retirement age by two years in its draft legislation, amid...
Minister warns against reinstating public sector pay cuts
Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said on Saturday the economy would seriously suffer if the supreme court issues a decision to restore civil service salaries immediately...
Widowers threaten legal action over pensions
A group representing widowers on Monday called on the government to relent on the issue of pensions and to respect the House vote on the...
Bill seeks to increase benefits and pensions
A bill seeking to raise the mobility benefit for workers or students with disabilities by 50 per cent was discussed on Tuesday at the House...
Cyprus to set up a single insurance and pensions supervisory authority
Cyprus will set up a new single independent insurance and pensions fund supervisory authority joining the separate authorities currently supervising the sectors, Finance Minister Harris...
Disy delegation visits elderly, pledges pension increase
Better days for the elderly will come through increases in pensions, a delegation from ruling Disy led by leader Averof Neophytou pledged during a visit...
Diko urges speedy decision on relief package for the vulnerable
Diko chairman Nicolas Papadopoulos said on Wednesday that measures designed to help vulnerable groups must be finalised before the state budget for 2019 goes to...
Labour ministry looking into boosting low pensions
The labour ministry is working to find a way to raise low pensions on the instructions of the president, Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou said on...
1974 POWs say government has gone back on benefits pledge
Prisoners of war from 1974 have accused the government of rejecting every application for the honorary allowances promised earlier this year, claiming the pledge was...
President refers widowers’ pension bill to Supreme Court
President Nicos Anastasiades referred a law passed by parliament earlier in the month on widowers pensions to the Supreme Court on Friday, after the house...
House to decide on president’s veto to widower pension
By Stelios Orphanides The parliament is expected to decide on Friday whether to accept President Nicos Anastasiades’ referral of a law extending widower’s pension who deemed it...
House rules for widowers’ pensions
The House plenum passed an amendment on Friday allowing men to receive a widowers’ pension irrespective of when their spouse died. Prior to the amendment,...
House to review law on pre-GMI pensions
House plenum will convene in January to discuss a bill on low income pensioners after President Nicos Anastasiades referred it back to parliament on the...
Diko pledges to restore pensions and help victims of 2013 crash
Presidential hopeful Nicolas Papadopoulos on Wednesday unveiled his proposals for the economy, saying his main priority was to restore the middle class which he said...
Auditor-general urges review of mayoral pensions
Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides has once more raised the issue of mayoral pensions, urging the finance and interior ministers, as well as MPs, to review the...
Etyk says provident fund compensation lacks compared to public sector pensions
By Stelios Orphanides Bank workers’ union Etyk has criticised the government’s decision to cap compensation to members of provident funds for losses sustained in the...
Fiscal watchdog warns of macroeconomic imbalances
Cyprus’s Fiscal Council, an advisory body tasked with monitoring budget policies, said that the island’s economy continues to have significant imbalances threatening macroeconomic and fiscal...
