2023-05-02 17:07:36
Brussels. According to the new report published by the EU Commission, the EU spends around 1.49 billion euros annually on the pensions of civil servants alone. In 2022, this amount is expected to increase by 61 percent to 2.4 billion euros.
According to the 33-page report by the EU Commission, spending increased by 225 million euros, or 10.35 percent, from 2021 to 2022 alone. Total pension expenditures for both active and retired civil servants reached 126 billion euros at the end of 2021. There has also been a rapid increase in the number of civil servants in the EU; The number of employment, which was 58,567 in 2014, increased to 66,120 in 2021. In the field of data protection, this number has more than doubled.
Salaries have also increased!
According to Bild’s report, the increasingly expensive retirement plan is not the only thing the taxpayer has to finance; Salaries were also increased exorbitantly. To adjust wages for inflation, EU workers’ generous salaries have increased by 8.5 percent recently!
EU officials receive, on average, 61.7 percent of their final salary as a pension. Therefore, pensions range from 2018 euros to 12,869 (!) euros. However, additional payments can be made. However, EU civil servants must pay a monthly pension contribution. Currently this rate is 10 percent of their salary. (yenivatan.at)
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