Moldova Plans to End Unemployment Benefits for Early and Special Pensioners

Recipients of special and early retirement pensions will lose their entitlement to unemployment benefit

The Government will review the regulations concerning unemployed people who receive pensions and are simultaneously entitled to unemployment benefit. Recipients of special and early retirement pensions for long service will be excluded from the category of unemployed people entitled to such benefit.

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At the same time, they will retain their right to claim unemployed status and receive employment support. This amendment is planned to be introduced into the Law ‘On Employment Promotion and Unemployment Insurance’.

The draft is currently open for consultation. If approved, it will come into force three months after publication.

The rationale behind the change is that the purpose of unemployment benefit is to support workers during the period leading up to their reintegration into the labour market, whilst the state already pays a social allowance to pensioners.

According to the National Council for Social Security (CNAS), as at 1 January this year, 34,721 people were receiving special and early pensions. The authors of the amendment believe that this has created an unfair situation for recipients of old-age pensions, who are not entitled to unemployment benefit.

It is noted that recipients of special and early retirement pensions who, at the time the law comes into force, are also receiving unemployment benefit will continue to receive it until the end of the benefit period and under the conditions set out in the decision granting the benefit.

This story was translated with the assistance of artificial intelligence.The translation was also reviewed by the Logos Press editorial team.

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