Nawrocki announced changes for retirees. Everything will become clear on August 6th.

• According to the draft of the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy, additional indexation of pensions and disability benefits during the year will be possible when the increase in prices of consumer goods and services in the first half of a given year exceeds 5%.
• However, the September indexation would be a shift of part of the annual indexation to an earlier date, and not an additional increase.
• President-elect Karol Nawrocki has made a promise that on the first day of his assumption of office, he will submit an important bill to the Sejm
• It provides that as part of the pension indexation, benefits will always increase by at least PLN 150, and the indexation rate will always be higher than the inflation rate - emphasized Infor.pl

Let us recall: according to the draft amendment to the Act on Pensions and Disability Pensions from the Social Insurance Fund and certain other acts, it was proposed to introduce, in addition to the existing provisions on the annual indexation of pensions and disability pensions carried out from 1 March, an additional indexation of benefits in the event that the increase in the prices of consumer goods and services in the first half of a given year exceeds 5%.

In the aforementioned draft amendment to the Act it was proposed that the indexation should take place:

• once a year, if inflation in the first half of the year does not exceed 5% - the current rules for annual indexation of benefits will apply,
• twice a year if inflation in the first half of the year exceeds 5% - both annual indexation and additional indexation of benefits will be carried out.

It was proposed that additional indexation would be carried out from 1 September, if the consumer price index in the first half of a given year exceeds 105%.

At the same time, the drafters added that, similarly to the annual indexation, the additional indexation will consist in multiplying the amount of the benefit and the basis for its assessment, in the amount due on 31 August of the year in which the additional indexation is carried out, by the additional indexation rate.

It is worth emphasizing, however, that the September indexation is a shift of part of the annual indexation to an earlier date, and not an additional increase.

Indexation in August according to the new president's announcement

As reported by Infor.pl, in his election program, President-elect Karol Nawrocki included a promise that on August 6, 2025 (the day he takes office as president) he will submit to the Sejm a bill providing that, as part of the indexation of pensions, benefits will always increase by at least PLN 150, and the indexation rate will always be higher than the inflation rate.

The portal explains that, given this year's indexation of pensions and disability benefits, this would mean that the amount of the lowest pension, disability pension, social pension, and survivor's pension would increase to PLN 1,930.96 instead of PLN 1,878.91. Importantly, the higher the pension, disability pension, social pension, or survivor's pension, the lower the increase (subject to the minimum indexation amount of PLN 150), explains Infor.pl.

However, if this promise were to be applied to next year's indexation of pensions and disability benefits, it would mean that the currently forecast amount of the lowest pension, disability pension, social pension and survivor's pension would increase not to PLN 1,970.98, but to PLN 2,028.91 (i.e. the increase would amount to PLN 150 guaranteed by the president), Infor.pl calculates.

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