Legal opinion on a Deputies’ bill amending the Act on Old-Age Pensions and Disability Pensions from the Social Insurance Fund (Sejm Paper No. 150) Cover Image

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Legal opinion on a Deputies’ bill amending the Act on Old-Age Pensions and Disability Pensions from the Social Insurance Fund (Sejm Paper No. 150)

Author(s): Magdalena Szczepańska
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Civil Law, Law on Economics
Published by: Kancelaria Sejmu
Keywords: debt; enforcement; old-age pension and disability pension; bill; social security

Summary/Abstract: The proposed bill provides for the amendment of Article 141 of the above-mentioned Act which specifies the limits of enforcement deductions from pension benefits. In the author’s opinion, the entry into force of the rules providing for the lack of opportunities for enforcement of deductions from pension benefits in the lowest amount may lead to adverse consequences for that group of beneficiaries in relation to access to financial services. These institutions may treat such pensioners as people with a low level of solvency, since it is not possible to carry out enforcement deduction directly from periodic benefits they receive. Moreover, a 14-day period of vacatio legis specified in the bill seems too short in the context of the substance of the proposed amendment.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 177-180
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Polish