Communist-era officials face further pension cuts

From November 2026, more former communist party officials will see their state pensions reduced. High-ranking members of the former communist party, senior staff of party apparatuses, and selected heads of the state security services, border guards, and People’s Militias will lose 300 crowns per month for each year spent in office.

Since March last year, pensions have already been cut for 177 senior figures of the former regime, on average by 1,473 crowns per month. The government described the measure as a symbolic act of coming to terms with the country’s totalitarian past. The new law could affect several thousand people.