Former Defence Minister and USR MP Radu Miruță has tabled a bill to update military pensions again to the grade salary, funded from damages, penalties and guarantees the Defence Ministry recovers on procurement contracts, News.ro reported.

“Updating military pensions to the grade salary is an obligation, not a whim. There is no argument for this injustice to continue,” Miruță said. He argues earlier drafts died because they never named a funding source.

Public-finance law now sends such sums to the state budget. The USR draft would split recoveries: 40% to the state budget, 30% as MoD own revenue, 20% into a fund to update military state pensions to the grade salary, and 10% to staff who managed the contract.

The bill was filed while he was still defence minister. Miruță says MoD runs complex, long-running procurement programmes and that damages recoveries can be substantial.

“This initiative does justice to those wronged by finding, as I promised, a solution in our own yard — not asking other ministries to give up money for MoD,” he added.

The draft now enters parliamentary procedure. Any effect on reservists depends on passage and how much MoD actually recovers from contracts.

Image: Britchi Mirela — Izvor Park and Palace of Parliament, Bucharest (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0).

Sources consulted: Radu Miruță bill on military pensions — Informat.ro.