Romania’s pension coupons use five colors to show payment method and adjustments

In Romania, pensioners receive a colour‑coded coupon each month that records the amount paid and any special adjustments. Five colours are used:

- Red coupons indicate payments delivered by the national postal service; about 2.1 million retirees receive their pensions this way. - Purple (violet) coupons are for pensions transferred to bank cards, covering roughly 2.5 million beneficiaries. - Grey coupons signal a higher‑than‑usual payment for that month, often reflecting retroactive differences, recalculations, or administrative corrections rather than a permanent increase. - Green coupons are used for certain statutory indemnities (details not specified). - An additional colour (not detailed here) is also part of the system.

The coupons are informational documents, not payment instruments, and they list the pension amount, any deductions, indexations, or extra sums granted for the period.