6 hours agoKey announcement for Kosovars, this is how Switzerland's pensions will be taken
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)The Ministry of Labour and Social Management has begun to accept the first applications of Kosovars working in Switzerland, who since September 1st can receive their pensions without having to live in Switzerland. Officials confirm that pensions will not be undertaken retroactively. They say [...]
Officials confirm that pensions will not be undertaken retroactively. They say that since the entry into force of the new Swiss pension agreement has so far applied over 100 pensioners.
One citizen, about 40, was waiting in line in the barracks of the Ministry of Labour and Social Management to apply for disability retirement in Switzerland. Although not presented, he says he worked and acted in Switzerland over a period of five years.
I had Switzerland's pension by 2010, and we were interrupted by saying that the Law has not entered into force. I've been so badly hurt and medically 99 percent dead. I worked there from '94 to some other time, this citizen says.
Labour and Social Management Ministry officials tell Radio Kosovo that from its entry into force, so far, the parties' interest in profiting over this pension and that they have applied is over 100.
Bahri Xhaferi, from the Pension Department, specifys that pensions are divided into categories, while stressing there will be no retroactive pensions for beneficiaries. Xhaferi says that according to estimates, more than a thousand benefits applications are expected.
Here will benefit pension carriers, the workers themselves, their family, will be the disabled pension. Swiss authorities have strongly opposed it, that there will be no retroactive payments, even though they have been suspended since 2010. This is a bad thing for former beneficiaries, but this is a decision by the Swiss authorities and Kosovo can do nothing in this direction”, he said.
Xhaferi explains that those who made the total retirement of pensions long ago will not be able to take advantage of this decision by the Swiss government.
By 2010, Kosovars who worked and retired to Switzerland no longer received pensions if they returned to Kosovo, because the federal government had cancelled the social security agreement with Switzerland, a decision that had created uncertainty for thousands of pensioners from Kosovo, even despite their legitimate right to retire from Switzerland.
