The Constitutional Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, after asking a group of representatives to supplement the documentation regarding the request for the constitutionality assessment of Article 81 of the Law on Pension and Disability Insurance and the retroactive application of the Law on PIO, turned to the Parliament of the Federation of BiH, the House of Representatives and the House of Peoples of the Federation of BiH and asked them to submit certain documentation.
On March 12, a group of representatives, 35 of them, submitted a request for an evaluation of the constitutionality of the amended Article 81 of the Law on PIO, which determines the amount of the lowest old-age pension. With the introduction of differentiation, there are now old-age pensions lower than the minimum in FBiH. Thus, for up to 20 years of service, a person can have a pension of 434 KM. And this pension is more than 200 KM less than the minimum, which is 666.72 KM.
On March 12, the request for constitutional review was initiated by the Club of Independent Representatives in the House of Representatives of the FBiH Parliament, and it was supported by representatives of the DF, SDA and the Republican Party.
Before the amendment of Article 81 of the Law on PIO, a person who retired at the age of 65 with 15 years of service had a minimum pension.
It is necessary to remind that many who have been working since 1996 until today, which is a span of some 30 years, have 16, 17, 20 years of service because their employers did not pay them for service. Workers had the option of working illegally or being unemployed.
The law was confirmed in the House of Peoples of FBiH on January 23, 2026, and its application is retroactive from January 1.
The group of representatives requested an evaluation of the constitutionality of the retroactive application of amendments to the Law on PIO, as well as the adoption of a temporary measure by which the Constitutional Court would suspend the application of the disputed provisions until the final decision in this case.
– The parties to the proceedings are a group of 35 representatives as applicants and the FBiH Parliament as the adopter of the contested law. In order to further conduct the procedure, we invite you to submit, in accordance with Article 16 of the Law on Procedure before the Constitutional Court of FBiH, within 15 days at the latest, a response to the request for the adoption of a temporary measure, and within 30 days, a response to the allegations in the request for establishing constitutionality. If the answer is not submitted within the deadlines, the Constitutional Court of FBiH will continue the proceedings at the request of the applicants and conduct the proceedings on the basis of the data found in the file of this court – stated the Constitutional Court of FBiH, addressing the Parliament of FBiH.
They added that the House of Representatives and the House of People of the FBiH are obliged “within 30 days to submit the proposal of the Law on PIO with justification adopted by the Parliament in 2018, the Proposal of the Law on Amendments to the Law on PIO from 2022 and the Proposal of the Law on Amendments to the Law on PIO from 2026”, it says Factor.
