After recalculation, about 90% of military pensions increased, while some were reduced. The IMF explained that restoring reduced military pensions to the levels previous to recalculation would also entail cutting the pensions which were raised, said the sources.
End-January 2011, the Government approved an emergency ordinance which changed the way the pensions of former military personnel are calculated, after the Constitutional Court ruled unconstitutional a Government decision on recalculating the pensions of military staff, police officers and public servants with special status, who work in penitentiary administration.