A SERB WOMAN AS A WORLD RECORDER: Grandma receives pension for 70 years!

The maximum retirement internship is held by a lady from Subotica, who has been entitled to pension since 1945, followed by another lady from Belgrade who went into  retirement in February 1946, writes Vecernje Novosti.

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Of the 1.7 million pensioners in Serbia,  to more than 400 addresses, checks have been arriving for more than half a century. They are received by those who earned the right in the period from 1949 to 1959.

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- In Serbia, for more than three decades, pension is received by 38.467 users, and four decades and more checks are delivered to the addresses of 7,423 users  - says the Pension Fund.

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Katarina Stanic, the director of the Center for Social Policy and an expert on pensions and pension systems shows that these are all relics of the old regulations, and these two pensioners who receive their pension from 1945 have earned this right during the Liberation War.

- Let's not forget that up until 2001, the age limit for retirement was not reared for 35 years - says Stanic .

Foto-ilustracija: e-stock.us/Ljuba Becic

In addition, Stanic says that before, there existed a series of acts under the "special regulations" such as those from NOR or administrative pensions, which have meanwhile been eliminated. In addition, the age limit has been raised for family and privileged pensions.

All changes from 2000 on-wards will certainly lead to a reduced number of such pensioners.

(Telegraf.co.uk/ Vecernje Novosti)