Valstybinių pensijų teisinis įvertinimas, teorinės ir praktinės problemos

Abstract

On Lithuanian Republic Constitution 52 clause ground, state pensions, described in Lithuanian Republic State pension law, is the composite part of Lithuanian pension care system. State pensions give additional income in old age or disability cases, because they are paid together with state social insurance pensions. The devotion of state pensions serves as the way of respect or being thankful for some persons, It’s possible to devide state pensions in such groups: the state pension of the Republic President – for the exceptional acknowledgement of the leader of the country; according to one’s deserts for the Lithuanian Republic – I and II degree state pensions of the Lithuanian Republic; as the compensation for the people who suffered – state pensions for the people who suffered; for some kind of work – state pensions of officers and soldiers; state pensions of scientists; state pensions of lawyers. The base of Lithuanian pensions system is the principle of equality, described in the Lithuanian Constitution 29 clause. This principle includes the prohibition of discrimination privileges, that law of the Lithuanian constitution emphasized, that while making decisions, it’s need to follow principles of the intelligence, proportion and justice for making the balance of interests, avoiding the contrast of chances, ill - willness and interests. In 1997-2008 year governments activity programs is underlined the necessary of the state pension system reform. Measures of the law in this period influenced state pensions payments and their receivers number in decreasing or increasing way. Measures were very decided, refusing not to develop the number of state pensions, refusing all additional state pensions, trying progressively to decrease the number of person, having a tight to recieve the state pension and to make equality and the social justice in such a way.