Minimum wage changes from January 1, 2025
December 11, 2024Florina Babau
The guaranteed gross minimum basic wage in the country increases from the current 3,700 lei to 4,050 lei gross monthly.
READ MORELength of service is different from contribution period, which is the period of time during which social security contributions have been paid to the state.
Read articleAccording to the Labor Code, seniority in employment is considered to be “the period during which a person has worked as an employee, regardless of the type of employment contract and the way the work is remunerated”.
You can also check your seniority online. As of this year, the National House for Public Pensions has updated its e-services, so you can now check online how long you have worked and whether your employer has paid your pension contributions.
Any employee in Romania can create a user account on the website of the National House of Public Pensions (CNPP) to find out how much seniority they have accrued for their state pension. Once you have created an account, you can quickly find out your accumulated seniority, presented either as a monthly or annual statement.
The National House of Public Pensions (CNPP) is a public institution of national interest, with legal personality, a specialized body of the central public administration that administers the public pension system.
Also online, on the platform of the National Public Pension House, you can also see if your employer has paid your pension contribution.
The National House of Public Pensions has improved its electronic services so that a wealth of information can be obtained without having to go to your local office.
In addition to pension applications, active contributors (those who are still employed) can obtain information:
All this information on contribution periods, i.e. the verification of the employer’s payment of pension contributions, is all the more important as from September 1, 2021 the amount of pension that pensioners will receive will take into account only the contributions, i.e. only the actual payments to the pension funds will be taken into account.