AMMAN — An official government source
confirmed that the
Social Security Corporation (SSC)’s request to issue a
defense order in order to increase retirees and early retirees pensions is
still under study, Jo24 reported Saturday.
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The source added that the SSC had asked the
government to issue a defense order to increase social security retirees and to
include early retirees whose salaries are less than JD250 after the recent
spike in inflation rate and the rise in consumer prices.
The source said that the
Legislation and Opinion Bureau is still studying the request from a legal point of view, and
recommendations will be submitted to the Council of Ministers to take the
appropriate decision at the time.
The official spokesman for the Social Security
Corporation, Shaman Al-Majali, had stated that the corporation is awaiting
approval of the defense order concerned with the increase mechanism.
Majali confirmed that the increase, if approved,
will take place at the beginning of May, which is the date of the annual
increase according to the SSC’s law.
Majali said that
if the government did not approve the defense order or did not approve
amendments to the SSC Law, the annual increment would not include early
retirees, since the current law does not cover them except when each retiree
completes the age of 60 years for males and 55 years for females, or in case of
death.
Social Security Law No. 1 of 2014 links annual increases to
the retirement salary and the disability pension to the annual inflation rate
or the annual growth rate of the average wage, whichever is lower, and with a
ceiling of JD20 as a maximum limit.
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