From April 1, 2026, the National Social Security Institute (NSSI) will begin the official recalculation of the pensions of over 355,000 pensioners who have continued to work and be insured after retirement. The measure aims to automatically update pensions without the need to submit separate applications.
The recalculation covers all types of labor pensions - for insurance length and age, for disability due to general illness, as well as for disability due to an occupational accident or occupational disease. The condition for official recalculation is that the pensioner has accumulated insurance service in 2025, regardless of its duration, and has not submitted an independent application for updating his pension by April 1, 2026 with insurance income and service acquired after retirement.
The data for the recalculation are provided by employers for employed pensioners, and for self-insured persons, the reported insurance contributions until December 31 of the previous calendar year are used. This ensures that pensions will be updated based on the actually acquired social security income.
The measure is applied annually and has been in force since 2021. Last year, about 363,000 pensions were updated in this way, with the average increase reaching about 11 leva. The total budget expenditure for the recalculated pensions in 2025 amounted to approximately 45 million leva, the National Social Security Institute indicated.
In addition, the revenues under the consolidated state social security budget for January 2026 reached 625.0 million euros, which represents an increase of 61.7 million euros or 11.0% compared to the same month of the previous year. This reflects the sustainable growth in receipts from social security contributions and further strengthens the financial base for the payment and updating of pensions.