NTA's intervention in the Electronic National Security Entity (e-EFKA) regarding the pension and allowance of a bilaterally orphaned disabled person (disability over 67%)

Following the NTA's intervention in the e-EFKA, a bilaterally orphaned disabled person is now entitled to 100% of the higher pension from one parent and 50% of the pension from the other parent.

Following a complaint, the NTA carried out an audit on the e-EFKA regarding:

• the delay in adjusting the pension to which a bilaterally orphaned disabled person was entitled from one deceased parent
• the delay in the transfer of the old-age pension from the other deceased parent; and
• the possibility of granting, or not granting, on the basis of a decision of the Health Committee, the support allowance of another person (due to absolute disability), or another allowance (e.g. extra-institutional).

The audit revealed:

The beneficiary, who had a congenital disability rating of over 67%, was receiving a reduced death pension [State and ex-OAEE (Organization for Self-Employed)] from one parent as an incapacitated child, when he/she should have received 100% of the higher pension. In addition, he/she was also entitled to an old-age pension [ex-OGA (Agricultural Insurance Organisation)] from the other deceased parent, the transfer of which had been pending for a long time and was completed during the NTA audit.

With regard to the possibility of granting another person's support allowance (absolute disability) or an extra-institutional allowance, the following was established: a) the beneficiary a disabled person (as a public pensioner from the transfer of the old-age pension) cannot receive the absolute disability allowance or the extra-institutional allowance, while b) for the granting of another person's support allowance (from the ex-OGA) requires that the insured person whose pension is received by the beneficiary member must have been in the main insurance scheme for a period of time.

With the NTA audit report, e-EFKA will take the necessary actions:

a) To grant the beneficiary 100% of the higher pension from one parent, as a bilaterally orphaned child with congenital disability above 67%, and fifty percent (50%) of the pension from the other.

b) To issue a review decision on the two individual rights of the pensioner (death pension from the State and from the ex-OAEE) and to rule duly on the possibility of granting the Other Person's Support Allowance to the extent that its payment is provided for by the provisions in force.