Millions of budget euros for social and pension schemes

This data, for Radio Free Europe, has been released in a response to the Ministry of Labour and Social Management Information Office.

The total <x0).>The total picture that MPMS has earmarked during 2017 for all pension and social schemes is 372m euros, including in this amount of 1.2m euros for the drop in the language”, reportedly in response to the Office for Information of the Ministry of Labour and Social Management.

The social policy base in Kosovo, according to the ministry, consists of social assistance schemes, pension schemes, including age and contribution pensions, pension schemes for families of martyrs, disabled and war veterans, premature retirement of several companies, benefits of disabled persons, and several other categories.

The rapid expansion of Kosovo budget spending, which concerns various social schemes, has been consistently criticised by the International Monetary Fund.

Representatives of this mechanization have stated that the means for social schemes, particularly war-related benefits, are becoming a burden on Kosovo's budget.

The danger from the country's budget being posed by numerous social schemes is shared by economic experts.

Naim Gashi analysts of economic issues in a proposal for Radio Free Europe considers the number of people involved in social schemes great.

I think that the number of those on social schemes is extremely high for a population number like Kosovo has 1.8 million people. In Kosovo today, we have more people with social schemes than those working that are a contradiction and that don't happen anywhere in the world. Through social schemes I think there's no fighting against poverty. Poverty is fought by strengthening the private sector, creating new jobs where young people and other job seekers would find jobs”, Gashi says.

Unemployment is one of the biggest problems that has accompanied Kosovo society in recent years.

Of the more than 500,000 Kosovo citizens active for work, according to Kosovo Agency data, employed more than 350,000 people are.

According to these data, unemployment rates are 30.5 percent, while the most pronounced unemployment is among 15-24-year-olds at 55.9 percent, and female gender 37 percent, while in males about 29 percent.

For many of those who enter social categories, Gashi says, ways of employment should be found. The life standard of these people, Gashi underlines, is not raised through social schemes.

The construction of social schemes in Kosovo is being done for both political and electoral purposes and does not generate long-term development and improve the social standing of households and raise the living standards of the population. The life standard of the population rises only through strengthening the private sector, creating new jobs and developing youth through their professional career”, Gashi says.

Kosovo's budget annually does not amount to 2 billion euros. The amount of resources given for months to families or persons who entered social and pension schemes depends on social and pension categories.