The victims signed a joint appeal letter because they were deprived of their pensions by the Chinese Communist authorities. They plan to send it to various departments when they go to Beijing to petition. (Courtesy of informant)
The Communist Party of China (CPC) has imposed a policy of “zeroing out service” to cut off the pensions of people who have served prison sentences, leaving tens of millions of people across the country with “no support for the elderly and no medical care for the sick. A few days ago, many victims in Chongqing described their difficult survival under this evil policy, lamenting that they “don’t want to live anymore” and “can’t live any longer.
“I’m completely disappointed in this government.”
Shuai Zhigang told that he was audited for retirement in 2018 and was originally entitled to more than 2,700 yuan a month (RMB). But last September, authorities suddenly stopped paying his pension and zeroed out all of his years of service before 1993.
“In ’98 my unit (merged) and I was forced to go into society. At that time, my family was very poor and there was no one to control me in society, so I went to steal and was imprisoned for eight months.” Shuai Zhigang said. And this became the “reason” why he should not be entitled to a pension.
Not only that, the social security director also asked him to return the 50,000 yuan he had received in the past two years, saying that he had received it “illegally” and that if he did not return it, he was “cheating on his insurance”.
“I’m in a hurry.” Shuai Zhigang said, “My family’s condition is quite difficult. My wife died of a brain tumor last year, and she gave up treatment on her own initiative because her family was poor, so I owe her. Last year my salary also stopped, now I have no way to live, life has been desperate.”
Shuai Zhigang said that at present, the local street gives him 600 yuan per month “stability fee” (life stability fee) to try to appease, but the money is not enough. He lives in public housing, the monthly rent is nearly 400 yuan, utilities are extra. In addition, he has brain infarction, cerebral blood supply deficiency, hypertension and other genetic diseases that require medication.
Shuai Zhigang said, “I now need my sister to get money for medication and meals, and I rely on her to manage me. My parents have passed away, leaving only us siblings. My sister has a heavy burden, with a monthly pension of more than 2,000 yuan, and a family to live, so if things go on like this, my sister’s family will be ruined.”
Shuai Zhigang was driven to desperation, trying to force the government to return the old people’s pensions with his own life. (Courtesy of the informant)
In order to solve their livelihood problems, Shuai Zhigang and dozens of other defenders have gone to the Social Security Bureau in Chongqing many times to reflect their situation, but no one cares about them.
“The director of the social security bureau said: you have no money you go to your son, he does not support your old age, you go to sue him. I said: you are talking nonsense, you are afraid of not screwing up our family ah? Son work is also bad, I also give him additional burden well.” Shuai Zhigang said.
“Didn’t President Xi say ‘the elderly have a sense of security, the elderly have a sense of security’? I’m completely disappointed with this government, I have no confidence anymore, no one cares about us for seven or eight months.”
With no way to petition, Shuai Zhigang said he was “so desperate that he didn’t want to live anymore. “We dozens of people have been defending their rights and no one cares, I use my death to force the government to give them a solution, or will not give a solution. I died, but also to my sister relief.”
“Jumping from the building of the Social Security Bureau together”
Yuan Zhongqun, a woman, is nearly 60 years old and retired in 2014.
She told reporters that her more than 10 years of service before 1993 had all been zeroed out and her monthly pension of more than $2,900 had been stopped since October last year.
At present, she can only live on her 80-year-old mother’s pension of more than $2,000, but her mother has diabetes, coronary heart disease, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases, and she spends more than $1,500 to $1,600 a month on medication alone. Her own grandson also has hearing problems and would need several hundred thousand yuan for surgery.
Yuan said, “I can only borrow some rice from friends sometimes to cook some thin rice and eat some pickles to make ends meet. I myself have a disease, lumbar disc protrusion, compression of the sciatic nerve, walking is very difficult, I also need to cure.”
The hopeless life made her have the idea of light life.
She said, “I told the police station that day that I couldn’t live, I couldn’t live any longer. The three of us (along with my mother and grandson) jumped off the building of the Social Security Bureau. What should we do? If I can’t live, it will be over once it’s over, and they don’t have to take any money.”
“What about my life?”
The victim also told to Xianquan, he was laid off in 1974, 79 years back to the city, in Chongqing City, the fifth construction of four construction team as a worker. 2000, he was “laid off”, suddenly no work in the community wandering, life is difficult. 2009, he was sentenced to three years in prison (the cause is not listed).
In September 2017, Xiang Xianquan retired and received a pension of more than $2,700. But in April this year, his pension was likewise stopped and his service prior to 1993 was zeroed out.
“There is no more, saying I am fraudulently claiming the state pension. I asked them for the documents, how can I claim it fraudulently? They couldn’t get it out either.” He said.
“What am I going to do with my life? I have multiple illnesses, I have to take 1,800 yuan for Chinese medicine alone and more than 700 yuan for Western medicine, and the doctor told me to be hospitalized, I have no money.” “I paid for my own insurance and now I receive more than 1,400 yuan per month. With just this money, I can’t afford to see a doctor if I eat, and I can’t afford to eat if I see a doctor… I am miserable.”
In addition, the reporter also asked another victim, Yu Ziwu, about the situation. He suffers from severe emphysema and requires frequent oxygen intake.
When the call came in, Yu Ziwu was being treated in the hospital. He was short of breath and said, “There is no money for treatment, the doctor told me to be hospitalized and said I could stay anytime.” The interview was soon interrupted due to ill health.
A few days ago, to the first full also in a wheelchair with everyone to defend their rights, after the April stop payment, because of anxiety on fire, has been bedridden. (provided by informants)
To the city hall to defend the rights of the police expulsion
On the morning of April 23, 40 to 50 people who were deprived of their pensions due to “zero service” went to the Human Resources Bureau of Chongqing Municipal Government again to reflect their situation.
Shen Qing (a pseudonym), who went to the site to defend his rights, said, “They (government officials) told us to go to the letter and visit reception room and took out documents from 1959 to give us a perfunctory response. We took out the formal document and argued with them, and they hid in the house.”
This “document from 1959” is known to be the document (59) Inner Personnel Fuzi No. 740, “The Reply Letter of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on the Calculation of the Length of Service of Staff Members Who Have Been Dismissed, Re-education Through Labor, and Criminal Punishment”.
In the document, the words “counter-revolutionaries and other bad elements who have been expelled or criminally punished” are still used by the Chinese Communist authorities.
Mou Chuanheng, a mainland lawyer, pointed out that it is not a law, “it is a document of the department in 1959, and the CCP used this document to illegally set the condition of ‘deemed contributory service’, depriving tens of thousands of elderly people of their rights and interests after retirement. illegal.”
Shen Qing also disclosed that during the government’s rights defense, some people threatened to “kill the elderly” and so on, and everyone was a bit scared, so they all went to sit in the hall without talking and without holding any banners and slogans.
“A little while later suddenly came four or five cars, they are Chongqing Yubei District Public Security Bureau, plus plainclothes have sixty to seventy people, said that they want to take us all away, no way ah, we are all old people ah.” He said, “The police forcibly drove us away.”
In addition, the victims’ group went to the Yuzhong District Social Security Bureau on April 21 to defend their rights. The bureau called in police from the Qixinggang police station and arrested an elderly man.
Shen Qing said, “We have been looking for the local government not to give a solution for seven or eight months, then we have to go to Beijing to petition.” “We ask the media to help us and let the world know.”
On April 21, the Yuzhong District Social Security Bureau called in police from the Qixinggang Police Station to arrest an elderly defender of his rights. (Courtesy of informant)
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