{"id":355604,"date":"2026-02-25T13:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/355604\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:52:12","slug":"government-determined-to-raise-pensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/355604\/","title":{"rendered":"Government determined to raise pensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The government is determined to raise pensions through reforms<\/strong>, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday during a meeting with trade unions SEK, PEO and Deok.<\/p>\n<p>The president said the meeting was convened to discuss issues the trade unions had raised, which was why ministers and other officers were present.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is an issue I would like to add to the agenda, which for us in 2026 is one of the most important. It is pension reforms. I believe we must exchange some views through the dialogue already underway with an aim to conclude all procedures, including at the House of Representatives, within 2026,\u201d Christodoulides said.<\/p>\n<p>Pension reforms, he pointed out, were \u201can important reform, where essentially <strong>for the first time since 1980 we will deal with this particular issue so much, with the sole aim of raising pensions<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a sector where we want to see a substantive increase and I refer particularly to the low-income pensioners,\u201d Christodoulides added.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the government acknowledged the importance and contribution of the trade unions, particularly regarding the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Christodoulides\u2019 comments follow remarks made the previous day by Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas who said after a two-hour session of the labour advisory body that the government aims to submit legislation reforming the first pillar of the pension system to parliament by <a href=\"https:\/\/cyprus-mail.com\/2026\/01\/26\/pension-reform-legislation-to-be-tabled-by-june\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">early June<\/a>, with the objective of implementing the changes by 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government is determined to raise pensions through reforms, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday during a meeting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[177],"tags":[79,152040,18,19,17,234,235,64386],"class_list":["post-355604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-cyprus-news","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-state-pensions"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116131603595432975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}