The payment of pensions and their supplements for March this year

will take place between March 7 (Monday) and March 21 (Monday).

Simultaneously with them, additional payments will be made again, which do not represent pensions or supplements under the insurance legislation, but it is normatively established that they should be paid according to the procedure for payment of pensions:

- a supplement of BGN 60, granted by a decree of the Council of Ministers, in order to support pensioners during the emergency epidemic situation, which has gained popularity as a "covid supplement" - it will be paid to all pensioners in equal amounts;

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- the difference between the income from pensions in January 2022 and the income from pensions from December 2021, with the "covid supplements" included in it.

This difference is calculated individually for each individual pensioner, if the amount of the monthly amount of the pension at the disposal or the sum of the pensions recalculated from December 25, 2021, together with the supplements and compensations, including the covid supplement of BGN 60, is turns out to be less than the amount of the monthly amount of the pension or the sum of the pensions before the recalculation, together with the supplements and compensations, including the paid covid supplement of BGN 120.

The calculated difference, which refers to March, will be paid together with the pensions for March 2022. The National Social Security Institute (NSSI) reminds that with the pensions in February, a difference was paid, which refers to the first two months of this year. while now it will be only for a month.

Therefore, there may be differences in the compensation paid to pensions in February and March.

The described covid supplements and differences do not form part of the pensions and are paid by virtue of special provisions, without the need to rule by order of the pension officials in the territorial divisions of the NSSI.

            Together with the pensions for March 2022, the pensioners who receive a supplement under Art.

9 of the Law on Political and Civil Rehabilitation of Repressed Persons will also receive the supplement for March in its new increased amount, as well as the amounts for additional payment of the increase for the months of January and February 2022.

From March 7, the electronic reference for the amounts paid during this month will be active, incl.

non-pension supplements and differences.

It is updated every month and gives the opportunity to each pensioner to be informed about the amount and the way in which his individual difference is calculated, as well as about the supplement paid for the respective month covid.

The information is available with the personal identification code (PIC) of the NSSI on the website of the institute in the section "E-services and inquiries" / "Inquiries" / "According to the PIN and PIC of the NSSI" / "In the service of the pensioner".

Pensioners who do not have a NSSI PIC can request a certificate to be sent to them by mail or receive it at the NSSI receptions, as well as to request its receipt electronically if they have a qualified electronic signature to identify themselves. .

The payment of the amounts from pensions, supplements and difference through the post offices will be made according to a prepared schedule, which will be announced in advance in each of them.

The pensioner will be provided with a service voucher, which will show what part of the amount paid is from the pension, covid supplement and individual difference, if any.

The transfers of the March pensions to the accounts of the pensioners who receive their pensions by bank transfer will be made on March 7, 2022.

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