Prices at khava '%s', pensioners: We're buying a little bit to try.

Very expensive “I don't know, it wasn't like this before. We're buying less than to prove”, says Hadije Osmani, a 79-year-old pensioner who gets 190 euros a month.
Pensions in Kosovo range from 100 to 265 euros.

Inflation, meanwhile, has reached 14.1 per cent in June, compared to the same period last year, Kosovo Statistics Agency data (ASK) shows.

Price increases have started since last year, mainly because of supply disorders caused by the pandemic and the coronary.

Hov, then gave them Russia's war in Ukraine, which began in late February.

According to AKS data, published on July 21st, fivekg of flour in the market are sold for 3.58 euros -- a common bread for 0.050 euros -- a liter of oil for 2.82 euros, a litre of milk for 1.10 euros, and 30 eggs for 3.95 euros.

“Today, with retirement you cannot stay alive”, says Aslan Aslan, 82.

As highly educated pensioners, he receives pension worth 260 euros a month. Things and medicines that he bought just a year ago, he says he can't buy anymore.

Whatever demands young people have, so do we. But we also have medicine. Every second pensioner is sick, he needs to go to the sea, to the bathroom... He needs to buy a grandson's bonboon at home, but he can't do it”, says Aslan.

Mybera Kasumi is chairman of the Association of Pensioners in Pristina. She says that from the day-to-day meetings facing pensioners, she learns that their biggest complaints have to do with drug prices.

“Pensionists have different diagnosiss of diseases and a drug costing 20 or 30 euros cannot buy”, she says.

According to AKS data, pharmaceutical products have scored 4 percent growth in June, compared to the same period last year.

There are no health insurance in Kosovo. Only a few citizens can be provided through private companies that offer such services.

The Pensioners' Centre in Pristina is the location of many pensioners from all over Kosovo.

Beating Selimi says he comes three times a week from Podujevo to meet his friends.

They gather only in the mall restaurant, as it says, prices are cheaper.

This is where we don't waste, a sytlic is 70 cents”.

The price of the bread, the drugs are high”, he says.

There is no drug in the ambulance within the Pensioner Center.

In April, the Government of Kosovo has earmarked from an additional 100 euros for pensioners, as well as several other categories of society, to help cope with rising prices.

According to official data, about 200,000 pensioners currently live in Kosovo.

Of them, about 148,000 are beneficiaries of old age pension, which means they receive 100 euros a month, while less than 50,000 are contributed. The latter are divided into four categories and receive between 182 and 265 euros a month, depending on their schooling.