Title: Parliament Secures Financial Rights for Retired Educators, Addresses Longstanding Claims
In a significant move supporting the nation’s educators, the Iranian Parliament has taken decisive action to resolve financial issues concerning retired teachers, ensuring the payment of long-overdue benefits and correcting salary rankings.
Addressing the Salary Ranking Anomaly
Ahmad Fatemi, a member of the Social Commission of the Islamic Parliament, highlighted the legislature’s focused efforts on amending the salary classification for educators who retired in the years 1401 and 1402 (2022-2023 in the Gregorian calendar). Following intensive work by Fatemi and his colleagues on the 1404 (2025) budget bill, the salary rankings for a specific group of retirees—those who retired in the latter half of the year 1400—have now been successfully corrected.
A Step Towards Comprehensive Resolution
This legislative action has clarified the financial status for over 60,000 retirees. However, work continues. As Fatemi explained, while 50 percent of educators who retired from 1401 onwards have received their correct classification, efforts are ongoing to amend the salary rankings for the remaining individuals to ensure everyone is treated fairly.
Prioritizing End-of-Service Benefits
The Parliament’s Social Commission is also championing another critical issue: the timely payment of end-of-service bonuses for all educators and retirees. Fatemi strongly emphasized the injustice of making retirees wait for two years to receive these payments, noting that the value of the stipulated amount diminishes in the face of inflation, causing undue hardship.
A Broader Commitment to Educational Staff
The Parliament’s commitment extends to other educational professionals. Fatemi affirmed that they remain steadfast in their pursuit to resolve the employment status of pre-school teachers, literacy movement educators, and ‘Amin’ instructors. Despite a specific clause in the 1404 budget bill mandating their conversion to a 24-hour weekly teaching contract, this law has regrettably not yet been implemented, a situation the commission continues to address.
This series of parliamentary measures underscores the government’s ongoing attention to the welfare of its dedicated educational workforce, both active and retired, and its resolve to uphold their financial rights.