Over 57m euros were spent on nine months for veterans' payments

Over 57 million have been spent from the state budget for payment of war veterans during this year's nine-month term. Compared to the same period last year, this figure has increased by 20m euros, or 51 percent.

This has caused social schemes to suffer a 16 per cent increase or 44m euros more than during the January-September period of 2017. Spending on social schemes has reached 321m euros in just 9 months, Koha Ditore writes today.

The rapid increase in spending on social schemes has seen the International Monetary Fund, which has been alarmed that Kosovo can move towards the fiscal crisis because its budget does not afford such a rapid increase in spending for this category.

According to the financial report for nine months this year, a copy provided by the newspaper “Koha Ditore”, during the 2016 nine-month war veterans' payment rate was spent 28.86m euros, for the same period of 2017, 37.96m euros have been spent, while this year the payment value has reached over 57m euros.

For basic pensions, 86.83m euros have been spent on basic contribution pensions of 71.10m euros, for pensions for persons with special needs of 24.70 euros, for the blind 4.11m euros. Based on this report on war categories, 29.83m euros have been spent, while for political prisoners around 6.5m euros. /Time/