For increasing pensions this year in the BiH Federation budget, just more than 332 million KMs are planned and retirees do not yet know what percentage can expect to increase pensions in April, when regular harmonization is done.
– I’m really not clear to me who the Association of the FBiH pensioners is represented, is the FBiH Government or Pensioners? Who is Regional Mehić President, himself? He can take 600 KM per month as the President of the Steering Board of the Association for None, then approximately 1,400 KM as a member of the board of directing, and not knowing about our rights. The pensioners are all upstairs. No one told us why there was no advance amount of pension increases, how much it will increase in April. What about the protests, just talk about them, and we sink everything deeper – the reader of factors from Sarajevo is bitter.
We contacted Mustafa Trakić, member of the Board of Directors of the FBiH Pensioners Association.
– Regarding the increase in pensions, it all depends on how much the gross domestic product and consumer price index will be given in April. We expect an increase of up to five percent. We will have a thematic session with the Federal Minister of Labor and Social Policy. It is important that they have increased salaries for 13 percent. With the salaries of 5,000 km per month, it is 240,000 KM in four years. And what we will be the pensioners, who can, will borrow credit – speaks trakić.
He says they insist on amendments to the Law on Pension and Disability Insurance in order to introduce other parameters for increasing pensions.
– We ask that pensions are harmonized according to personal income in the Federation of BiH. We insist that the amendments have been completed by the end of March. And increase in pensions 15. April will count towards the existing law, unfortunately. They will stick to the law, and what if an increase in the current GDP rate and consumer prices are two percent? On the street, I ask me if I support the boycott of shopping centers. I said the retirees in shopping malls have no 23 days each month. We spend a pension in seven days and the other 23 days we boycott the malls. Find retirayers in the mall – the trakic is bitter and adds:
– As we have seen, the FBiH budget for this year was adopted, but there is no active increase in pensions as it was two years. Regular alignment remaining 15. April and payout difference retroactively since January, writes Factor.
He looked forward to the increasing calls of pensioners on protests.
– If no amendments are amended by the Law on the PIO by the end of March, I think of Articles 79. And 80, the decision on protests will be activated. As known, the protest date is prolonged. If activated, we go with mass protests before the FBiH Government building in Sarajevo, “Trakić said.
