Retirement card is simply a paper that is entitled to a individual who has a fixed right to a pension, pension or teacher compensation. They were erstwhile only released in blank form, but from 1 January 2023 they are in 2 versions: physical and electronic, with an application to receive the former. It is worth knowing that their pattern will shortly change.
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Changes for seniors in July. It's about IDs.
Until 12 July of this year, the Social Insurance Institution will issue credentials in a well-known form. Under the draft regulation of the Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy, the blanks will later have a completely fresh look. Why?
The pensioner's pass, which is simply a category 3 public document, presently does not meet the minimum safety requirements laid down in the Regulation of the Minister of the Interior and Administration of 1 July 2022.
- we can read it. This means that they are now comparatively easy to counterfeit. A task of fresh blanks was published. What will they look like?
The fresh pensioner card will be a personalized recognition card with dimensions of 85.60 mm x 53.98 mm and rounded corners. They will be made of PVC, laminated on the 1 hand and equipped primarily with anti-counterfeiting and forgery protection elements. There will be facilities for blind people, as they will get the inscription "LEAR" embossed with Braille alphabet. Their artwork will besides change. alternatively of distinctive greenery, they will be in shades of dark blue and gray, with a delicate panorama of the city in the background.
New model pensioner card fresh card. == sync, corrected by elderman ==
New IDs will be more costly in production. So much money will be spent
As we can read in papers published on 19 January 2026 on the website legislacja.gov.pl, fresh ID cards will increase in production by about PLN 1.2, and the costs of implementing changes will be borne by the Social Insurance Institution. According to estimates, in the first year the expenditure associated with them will increase by PLN 332,000, while in the second year it will increase by PLN 450 thousand. Over the next 10 years, this gives a full of PLN 4.6 million. However, the Communication points out that the proposal for change meets social expectations. In contrast, the introduction of the fresh model is primarily a better safeguard of the interests of the recipients, and, consequently, of the state budget, which could be exposed to expenditure associated with the unauthorised usage of discounts (e.g. on urban communications). Do you like physical blanks or an app on your phone? We invitation you to participate in the probe and to comment.
