
Just by delaying retirement, retirees can get an extra 6 percent on top of the benefit rate. This is because every year of work, after the threshold of 65 years for men and 61 years and 8 months for women, leads to an increase in the pension.
The scheme in force determines that the supplement should be 0.5 percent per month or 6 percent per year, except for cases where pensioners choose to receive both the salary and the pension at the same time. While in no case are they exempt from the obligation to pay contributions like any other employee.
Fiscal expert Ramadan Kondi says that there are about 200,000 people who, even though they have reached retirement age, continue to be part of the labor market. Kondi says this scheme should be reviewed, giving pensioners the opportunity to receive, in addition to their pension and salary, an allowance to encourage their formalization in this way.
The pouring of contributions by pensioners who continue to be part of the labor market has been the subject of discussion from time to time, but every initiative undertaken has remained in the drawers without being able to be formalized.
The last one was in 2018, where through a draft for some changes in the "Social Security" law, submitted for consultation, it was proposed that pensioners benefit from both the salary and the pension at the same time, while at the moment the contract was terminated, it would be applied an additional 2.4 percent for each year of work completed after reaching retirement age.
Through this scheme, the payment of contributions was justified to some extent. But this draft, although it was welcomed by experts, did not pass for approval.