The solution proposed by Radu Miruţă, former Minister of Defense, for “correcting the injustice” concerning military pensions: “Updating military personnel’s pensions based on their rank pay is an obligation, not a whim”

Former Defense Minister Radu Miruță announced that he had submitted to Parliament a bill under which retired military personnel’s pensions would once again be updated based on the rank salary. The initiative also proposes a funding source for the measure: redirecting 20% of the penalties collected by the Ministry of Defense from companies that delay the delivery of military equipment and capabilities.

According to Miruță, the money would be transferred to a special fund of the Ministry of Defense and used to remedy a situation that the former minister considers unfair to retired military personnel. He argues that, in 2017, military pensions were decoupled from the evolution of the rank salary and position salary.

The initiative comes after several political disputes over the updating of military pensions. Miruță also referred to the PSD-PNL proposal from late 2024, which was declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court.

The former minister says that penalties imposed for non-compliance with military contracts can reach considerable amounts, citing one contract in which they would amount to nearly 500 million lei. The bill will proceed through the parliamentary procedure.