The head of pensioners: 100 euros is not enough for a week, the Government gave us false promises

This price hikes are taking all levels of society, but in particular pensioners and families with social assistance.

This is because the help they receive from the State is not enough even for basics.

From a basic age pension scheme, there are 143,522 beneficiaries, while the retirement pension plans include 46 thousand and 625 beneficiaries.

Pristina is a municipality with mostly the beneficiaries of basic pensions with a total of 15 thousand and 636 citizens.

While the second municipality is Prizren with 13 thousand and 73 beneficiaries.

The minimum monthly pension paid for all Kosovo citizens, who have reached the age of 65, regardless of whether they were employed or not, is 100 euros.

That amount is not enough, according to the chairman of the Association of Pensioners, Nijazi Gashi.

Gashi is telling Front Online that 100 dollars is not enough a week.

He says even drugs are not able to buy this category of citizens.

The options they now have are not enough for a week with these pensions they have not to buy medicine or food”, Gashi said.

For the increase in pensions, Gashi said expectations have been lost at the Ministry of Finance.

He says that only fake promises have been made from the MF.

Whatever they've promised so far is just false promises, and Ishalah is ever true of pensioners. So far the facts are that they don't keep the word”, Gashi says.

Repaying age pension is the regular monthly pension for citizens employed in the Republic of Kosovo, who paid their contributions to the former Kosovo Pension Fund before the 01.01.1999 date.

The amount of retirement contributions aged from January 2016 has undergone changes where pensions are paid according to grade classifications based on the following level of schooling:

The first non-educated or primary education category ė is 182 euros;

The second category of pensioners with middle education -- the pension sum is 198 euros;

The third high-educated épensionist category

The category of four university-educated professionals -- the sum of retirement is 265 euros.

In contrast, from Trading Economics data, it turns out that Kosovo is the second place at the highest price rate in the region.