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“We get the benefit, I owe it to Sodra, Sodra takes this benefit, so why eat? What to do? I’m coming, there’s a week left for retirement, it’s good, it’s bad, it will be enough”, commented Bronislav to LNK journalists.
Carolina also tells her story. The stories of everyone who visits the free dining room are similar.
“Here come those who lack money to eat. You pay for the services, you have to buy the medicine and keep 100 euros for the whole month. Imagine, and there are still all kinds of problems. You still have to pay the credit and the bailiffs have also attacked, ”explained Karolina.
In centers like this, the fed poor can choose clothes and shoes, and receive the psychological and legal help they need to lift themselves out of poverty. The owner of Betanija affirms that most of the visitors are older people.
“More than half, 60-70 percent. Our visitors are elderly people. The other part are the homeless and represent between 10 and 15 percent. Others are people who simply live in poverty,” said Miroslav Seniutis, director of Bethany.
The president of the Association of Elders says that the elderly are sad, lonely and cannot find comfort even in church.
“Most of the children have left, they are left alone. The bus leaves once a day, in the morning and returns at night. They have nowhere to take that pension. I asked him where he used to be, they say there used to be a church , and now the church is closed to hide from the wind and rain, ”said Grasilda Makaravičienė.
He also stressed that it is very difficult for retirees in the districts, because poverty in Lithuania is high, especially during this period.
“Because people are closed, they cannot go to the stores where it is cheaper to walk. However, there is not such a terrible horror in the big cities as in the districts ”, assured the president of the Association of Elders.
G. Makarevičienė also counted how much money is left for food.
“Now everything has become more expensive – and public services are waste, and electricity and heating, only when people pay these taxes are 100 euros left. 80 euros for subsistence “.
According to the Deputy Minister of Social Security and Labor, it is expected to increase the pensions of the elderly single.
“Now there is a plan and the ambition to reach 42 euros to add the pension of a single person, but we realize that we cannot do it quickly. We seek to start with a lower complementary pension, that is, 28 euros, and not for everyone, but for the lowest earners, ”said Vytautas Šilinskas.
Single person pensions are expected to increase in the summer.
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