Pensions for Retirement Regulations, 2019

L.N. 93 of 2019

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT

(CAP. 318)

Percentage Increase in the Rate of Contributory

Pensions for Retirement Regulations, 2019

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 84 of the

Social Security Act, the Minister for the Family, Children’s Rights and

Social Solidarity, in agreement with the Minister for Finance, has

made the following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Percentage Citation and

Increase in the Rate of Contributory Pensions for Retirement commencement.

Regulations, 2019.

(2) These regulations shall be deemed to have come into force

from the 1st of January, 2019.

(1) Every person who satisfies the conditions laid down Eligibility.

in article 64A of the Social Security Act and who opts to remain in his Cap. 318.

or her insurable employment or who is self-occupied shall not be given

the pension referred to in article 64A of the said Act when he or she

has the right for it.

(2) The aforementioned pension should be renounced for a

period of not less than one year from the date when a person has the

right to it and who opts to remain in his or her insurable employment

or who is self-occupied.

Every person who renounces to the aforementioned pension Increased

for a period of not less than one year from the date when he or she percentage

rates.

becomes eligible shall benefit from an increase in the rate of the

pension from the date when he or she decides to start receiving the

aforementioned pension in the following manner

(a) an increase of 5% if one decides to receive the

pension a year later;

(b) an increase of 10.5% if one decides to receive the

pension after two years;

(c) an increase of 16.5% if one decides to receive the

pension after three years; and

(d)

an increase of 23% if one decides to receive the

pension after four years.

When the calculation is made for the purposes of

establishing the additional amount according to the rate with the

percentage increase, the following shall be taken into consideration

(a)

the year in which the pension was due;

(b)

the rate of the pension that was due; and

(c)

the number of years in which the pension was not

paid.

(1) The additional amount emerging from regulation 4

shall remain fixed and it shall be paid with an increase in the rate of the

pension as it is calculated every year in accordance to Section V of the

Social Security Act.

(2) The additional amount emerging from sub-regulation (1) can

be paid to the survivors of the beneficiary if the survivors benefit from

the pension in accordance with Section IV of the Social Security Act

paid after the demise of the beneficiary.

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