The minimum rate of the pension for insurance practise and age is going to be changed from 1 October. This was determined on a session today by the Supervisional council of tha National security surance institute (NSSI) , reported to BTA from the institute.

The change is a result of the approved projects of laws for changing and additioning of the Budget's law of SSO for the present year and of the Code for social insurance, and from the project of Enacment of MS for a definition of a new rate of the social pension for old age.

With the projects is going to change and the indexing of the pensions, which are alloted to the end of the past year with 10%. The changes should decrease the insurance instalment for fund „Pensions“ to a persons, who are borned before 1 January 1960- from 23% to 22%, and for these who are born after 31 December 1959- from 18% to 17%. The instalment for fund „ Unemployment“ will be decreased from 3% to 1%, announced from NSSI.

In result of the increasingof the pensions with 10%from 1 October the minimum size of the personal pension for insurance practise and age will become 102.85 leva , and the social pension for age-76.23 leva. The medium size for pension is expected to become 183.34 leva.

The indexation of the pensions needs additional incomes in rate of 121.2 mln leva by the end of the year. The decreasing of the insurance instalment for fund „Pensions“ and „Unemployment“ is going to increase the incomes for the two funds with 118.4 mln leva.

The realization of the incomes of the budget of State social insurance (SSO) on base „six months“ shows overfulfilment of the plan with 233.4 mln leva, when for the first six months on account the overfulfilment is only 143.8 mln leva.

It it expected the changes to be compensated from the budget of SSO for the present year.