{"id":7759,"date":"2025-04-15T15:10:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/?post_type=agora_article&p=7759"},"modified":"2025-05-21T10:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T09:22:58","slug":"pensions-minimum-subsistence-rule","status":"publish","type":"agora_article","link":"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/en\/agora_article\/pensions-minimum-subsistence-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Pensions – Minimum subsistence rule"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Victims of administrative carelessness are discovering, sometimes very belatedly, the despoliation they have suffered. The institutions must pay! <\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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How to turn a safety net into a trap<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div>
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The retirement pension <\/strong>is one of the branches of Social Security, designed to enable people to reap the rewards of their work once they are no longer in employment. By way of \u2018safety net\u2019, it includes a mechanism designed to guarantee, if necessary, a better pension than that calculated on the basis of the worker’s professional path and to protect the weakest against the risk of finding themselves in need: this is the minimum subsistence rule<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The legal basis for the pension scheme of the EU institutions is to be found in the Staff Regulations. The unmissable gateway to retirement pensions is Article 77 <\/strong>of the StaffRegs. This provides for two alternative methods of calculating the pension:<\/p>\n