TIRANA, Sept 8 /ATA/ – The government’s second social assistance is designed to help relieve every Albanian household from the effects of the global energy crisis. The package also focuses on the manufacturing sector, transport, agriculture and it also guarantees that the electricity price for the household consumers and the small businesses remains unchanged.
Albanian government has pledged a total of 43.1 billion lek under the latest anti-crisis package during this year.
Pensions will be indexed by 6% starting in September. The state budget effect for this period is estimated at around 2 billion lek and as many as 674,000 retired people are entitled to benefit.
Under the new package, the total pension rise now totals 9.5% this year and being a more long-term measure than the previous package, the budget cost for 2023 is estimated 8.4 billion lek.
The monthly wage for 41,000 public sector employees will be increased by 7% starting from September and the estimated state budget effect is over 713 million lek for the period from September to December 2022 and 2.9 billion lek in 2023.
The monthly wage of the State Police workers will grow by 5,560 lek a month and 10,800 workers are entitled to benefit the pay rise. The wages for 3,600 members of the Penitentiary Police will be increased by 10,548 lek a month.
The salaries of 20.000 public administration employees will be increased by 5,000 lek a month.
The minimum monthly wage will go up by 7 % to 34,000 lek. The minimum wage has increased by 13% since start of the year, and the net pay rise for more than 200,000 workers is estimated 3,500 lek since start of the year.
Under the anti-crisis package, the government will double the social assistance payment to the female family heads with two children, people aged 65 and older who live alone or are not granted retirement payment or social pension.
The anti-crisis package also envisages a 7.5% increase of the disability benefit for the disabled people with an estimated financial effect of around 188 million lek, whereas its cost is estimated around 752 million lek in 2023 and around 90,000 people are entitled to benefit.
The package also provides compensation for the electricity price for the blind people and the paraplegics.
The package also guarantees excise-free oil for farmers and fishermen with an additional funding of 500 million lek for the tax-free oil and a total of 34.000 farmers are entitled to benefit. The package guarantees support for the fishing sector.
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