Pensioners: The value of pensions is never lower than today 's

The debt to pensioners is disastrous, said Milos Grabundji of the Union of Retired Serbian "Nezavisnost". Miša Radović of the Association of Pensioners' Unions estimates that the value of pensions is never lower than today, nor greater than ever before.

The Strasbourg Human Rights Court has accepted the request of the Union of Retired Serbian "Nezavisnost", which has complained to the institution of the temporary establishment of the method of payment of pensions. Misa Radovic, of the Pensioners Association, states that they have the same goal as the union "Nezavisnost", but that after five years they have not received any response from the Constitutional Court at the lawsuit they brought.

Radovic says the rejection of their initiative is "discrimination" and "brutal behavior".

"You have a law that does not allow you to complain, everything that was civilized during this law is questioned.We are entering the fifth year and we have no response from the Constitutional Court, we have come to the situation that we do not have the right legal system, rightly so "in this country," he adds.

Radovic said that the Constitutional Court had broken the judicial system and that, if you did not have a legal system, the country lives in the lawless system.

Grabundžija estimates that the state's debt to pensioners is catastrophic and that the "total balance is 700,000 injured".

He says that a country that wants to recover economically should have a stimulus package, an investment, involving the entire country, not just one government group.

According to Mr. Radovic, the one-time assistance to retirees of 3,000 RSD is social assistance.

"The government recognizes that pensioners are in a state of social need," he said, before asking how much money would be allocated.

As for the amount of pensions, their value is never lower than today, and never, he added.

"This is not a real economic approach to what they want to explain," he concluded.

Speaking of the phenomenon of retirement returning to the labor market, Grabundji said that there was no precise data on the number of people who were right, but that many were working in black.

"In the night, in the evening, as guards or in some agencies, as accounting clerks, you will no longer get a dinar for drugs or other needs", he declares.