The Communist Party of China (CPC) has enforced the “zeroing out of service”, which involves the personal interests of tens of millions of people and has aroused concern from the outside world. Recently, victims in Chongqing have told the Epoch Times that since September last year, some retirees in several districts have been illegally zeroed out and their pensions stopped by the Chongqing authorities, leaving them in a desperate situation.
This reporter learned from several victims that since September last year, Chongqing authorities had zeroed out their years of service on the grounds that they had served a prison sentence and stopped paying their already small pensions, leaving them without a source of livelihood and with no money to treat their illnesses and in despair.
Chen Wei (a pseudonym), 58, of Shapingba District, said the vast majority of their group experienced the “Cultural Revolution” “to the mountains and the countryside”, did not go to school for a few days, after returning to the city, and experienced the state enterprises to buy out seniority, was pushed on the social self-employment. At that Time, in order to survive, he broke the law and served an 8-month sentence.
At the age of 55, Chen Wei retired from his job, and he was able to get more than 1,900 yuan (RMB) per month when he retired, but in September last year, his pension was stopped without any notice and his service was zeroed out.
Chen Wei said they went to the Chongqing Municipal Government, the Municipal Political and Legal Affairs Commission, the Chongqing Municipal People’s Congress, the Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Letters and Calls, and the district governments at all levels, but “they are only perfunctory, saying that they are slowly solving the problem, and so far there is no reasonable solution, and the Chongqing government can not get the relevant documents.
“Take out our past things to say, the past contribution to society is written off, this is not fair, some people have been forced to live, want to jump from buildings, jumping from the river.” Chen Wei said, when they apply for retirement, but also after a rigorous review, “we do not have excessive requirements, to the rights of citizens, we now have many districts linked together, continue to defend their rights to the end.”
More than half a year without a source of livelihood, Chen Wei’s Life is in a difficult situation. “We don’t have a penny, we rely on going out and borrowing everywhere, now the vegetables are more than ten dollars a catty, this age work is not easy to find, and the body is sick, this is not forcing us to commit crimes again?”
The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. The company has been asked to return all the 60,000 yuan it had received, and must pay 200 yuan a month to repay the money.
“I questioned them, the money to my death also can not finish which, they said, no matter, when the time to the court.”
Qu Yi lives alone, does not belong to their own house, “I have been defending the rights, it is useless, they are scoundrels, we are the bottom of the people, the money we live are pinched off.”
Chongqing municipal government proposed to let them receive low income security of more than 600 yuan per month, Qu Yi believes: “We are dang with regular working years, why should we take up the quota of low income security? We don’t agree, no one is going to get this money.”
Guo Li (a pseudonym), 61, a steelmaking worker in Jiangbei District, Chongqing, joined the workforce in 1979 and belongs to a special category of work. After being bought out of service, he could not afford to renew his insurance premiums, so he only has 20 years of service before the buyout, which is now all cleared as well.
Guo Li said the suspension of his pension has a great impact on his life, “I am not well, suffering from cerebral infarction, angina and other diseases. I don’t have a house, I rely on the pension, and now I don’t even have the money to live, let alone see a doctor.”
He said angrily, “How many officials are corrupt and broke the law and still have money, while the people have no money and have to wait for death.”
“The money is what we deserve for our lifetime of labor, we want to go to Beijing to defend our rights, but before we can go, we are blocked by the police at Home, we can’t go at all, even if we go to Beijing, we are not given a solution.”
“Too unreasonable, at least let us live ah, you are sick, it (the government) is regardless, the death of the death, no one to care about you.”
It is understood that not only those who have served prison sentences to zero, but also for those who have lost their files, whose files have been deliberately thrown away, who have been dismissed from their units, who have not resigned normally or who have been interrupted in the middle (of their working years), may be zeroed.
The reporter called the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security in Beijing, and both phones were unanswered.
The issue of “no support for the elderly and no medical care for the sick” has long been a heavy topic for the people of the mainland. As early as a few years ago, large-scale protests broke out around the world to defend their rights.
On February 22, 2018, Qingdao dissidents joined Beijing dissidents to represent the signatories of the “1,000 People Joint Application for Disclosure of Government Information” at home and abroad, and formally set up a citizen’s group to sue the State Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security in Beijing. Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
On April 17, 2018, a large number of “two-no-victims” who were deprived of their retirement pensions in Zhejiang Province pulled up a banner to defend their rights in the provincial capital, asking the governor-level leaders to receive and resolve their demands.
Mou Chuanheng, a mainland lawyer, said in a commentary that the policy of “zeroing out the length of service” is fundamentally illegal because it is not a law, “it is a document of the department in 1959, and the Chinese Communist Party used this document to illegally set the condition of ‘deemed contributory service’ and deprive the whole country of the right to work. It is a 1959 departmental document, which the CPC used to illegally set the conditions for determining ‘deemed contributory service’ and deprived tens of thousands of elderly people nationwide of their rights and interests after retirement, so it is illegal in terms of legal basis.”
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