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Pension growth could be 6 percent, which would be the highest growth in recent years, President Aleksandar Vui announced tonight.
Source: Tanjug
EPA / VLADIMIR STOJAKOVIC
According to him, this means that older citizens who had a pension of 30,000 dinars in 2012 will have an income of 40,000 dinars.
Those who had low pensions of 20,000 dinars in 2012 will now have 27,499, representing an increase of 37.5 percent.
He added that we must not forget that pensioners, as well as all adult citizens, meanwhile, received 100 euros each, in addition to a single assistance.
When asked about the criticism of the Fiscal Council regarding the increase in pensions, Vui said that he likes to hear the objections of that body, because he always finds enough reasons to criticize the government from the side of the week, and not political criticism.
Increasing and minimal?
Tonight, Vui announced the possibility of raising the minimum wage by 2,000 dinars.
“The low in 2012 was 15,600 dinars. If we succeed by another 2,000, and I hope we succeed, it is not a small amount, then it is twice the increase in the last eight years,” Vui told RTS.
The amount of the minimum wage today is around 30,000 dinars.
Vui claimed that it is certainly not 100 percent in real money, but it is around 65 percent, which, he notes, shows how much better Serbia is today and how much the situation in the country has changed.
He added that the amount by which the minimum will be increased will be covered through the tax-free part of the income.
“I ask the employers to accept it and to understand that the state must fight for the workers,” said Wui.
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