05.11.2013

The informative material will specify the date when, based on each pensioner’s usual monthly pension delivery date, Latvijas Pasts will deliver the pension in December. For example, if a customer normally receives the payment on the fifth or sixth day of the month, next month it will be delivered on December 2; pensions that are normally paid out on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the month will be delivered on December 13, which will be the last pension payout date in that month. All December pensions will be delivered in the period from December 2 to December 13.

If a customer is not found at their place of residence on the December pension delivery date, it will be possible to receive the pension at the respective post office starting from the second working day after the pension delivery date, until December 16, 2013. If a customer has not collected the pension by December 16, it will be delivered at their place of residence in January on the regular pension delivery date, or will be paid out at the post office.

Pensions in December will be paid out in lats, but starting from January 2014 - only in euros. Starting from January, Latvijas Pasts will deliver and pay out pensions in accordance with the usual procedure - if the pension payment date falls on a Saturday, the pension, like before, will be delivered on Thursday; if the payment date is a Sunday, the pension will be delivered on Friday. The cost of pension delivery at the customer’s place of residence will not change next year - it is currently LVL 1.22, and will be EUR 1.74 from next January; the SSIA deducts this delivery service fee before transferring the pension to Latvijas Pasts.

Latvijas Pasts reminds that customers who receive the pension at their place of residence will be able to exchange lats to euros free of charge from January 2 to March 31, 2014, at one of the 302 Latvijas Pasts offices designated by the Cabinet of Ministers - in locations where bank services and ATMs are not available; a currency exchange service will not be provided by the postman. Pension recipients who have a Postal Payments System account and have the pension transferred to it will not have to worry about currency exchange, as all funds in these accounts will be automatically converted to euros on January 1, 2014, in accordance with the official exchange rate.

About SJSC Latvijas Pasts

Latvijas Pasts ensures the widest availability of postal services throughout Latvia by maintaining more than 600 post offices. The primary function of the company is provision of the universal postal service; Latvijas Pasts also provides commercial transport, express mail, payment, press subscription, retail and philatelic services. Latvijas Pasts is a wholly State-owned company with more than 4,200 employees.

Additional information:

Agija Tērauda
Public Relations Specialist
Phone: +371 67608506
E-mail: agija.terauda@pasts.lv
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