Photo: TanjugThe average pension in 2002 was 73 percent of the average salary, while today the average pension is 43 percent of today's average salary - pensioner Jugoslav Ristić argued in the appeal
An appeal to the state that is in "Kragujevčke novine" sent last week by Jugoslav Ristić, president of the Citizens' Association "Nova sveltst" from Kragujevac, is appropriate to hear today, on World Social Justice Day.
"The appearance of improvement in pensioner standards continues. The second part, the increase in pensions announced eight months ago, is being realized, while the standard of pensioners is getting worse," says Mr. Ristić and explains that "the total increase in pensions of about 20 percent is not enough to maintain the standard of pensioners at the current level, if we know that food increased in price by more than 24 percent in the past year, while milk, cheese and eggs rose in price the most, by 43,3 percent. Meat went up in price by more than 20 percent, while heating with solid fuels went up in price by 51 percent, in the same period. This is how the planned collapse of the oldest standards continues, which has been going on for more than two decades."
He says that "the truth of this claim is best evidenced by the fact that the average pension in 2002 was 73 percent of the average salary, while today the average pension is 43 percent of today's average salary."
"As several governments and political parties in power have changed in this period, they all have in common that they have lowered the standard of pensioners."
He particularly emphasizes the "difficult position of pensioners who live alone after the death of one of their spouses." Housing costs, utility costs and others remain the same as when both spouses lived in the housing unit. The incoherent advice coming from the so-called political elite that pensioners who live alone sell their apartments and buy less are just irritating attempts to pass on the lessons learned from the courses."
That's why he calls for "amending the law, which would allow a spouse who lives alone, after the death of a spouse, to be entitled to part of the deceased spouse's pension in addition to his or her own pension, which is the solution that exists in the European Union."
S.Ć./Kragujevac
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