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In the first half of this year, almost 11 thousand civil servants were renovated. 10 years ago this level has not been reached.
In the first half of this year, they registered 10,809 New reforms of old age or disability in the General Retirement Box (CGA).
It is a climb of 11,3% Comparing with the period between January June last year – and it is a number that has not been seen since the final times of the troika, highlights the.
The updated numbers of the budgetary entity, released in late July, reveal that this number exceeding 10,000 new renovated in the civil service, in one semester, they had last happened in 2015.
It is recalled that, at that time, with cuts in salaries and pensions and different rules in the calculation of pensions, there was a historic increase of reformed: in 2014 there were more than 23,000 requests for retirement in the civil service.
Then there has been a drop, but over the last few years the trend has been growth.
Now, Caixa General of Retirement records more than 665 thousand pensioners and close to 358 thousand subscribers. On average, an old civil servant receives a reform of 1,400 euros per month.
The current age of reform in Portugal is 66 years and seven months. Next year will rise slightly to 66 years and nine months.
CGA is the protection regime of civil servants, but it has been closed since 2006 – from this year, new state workers have been registered in social security.
