TIRANA, November 2/ATA/ Minister of State for Entrepreneurship and Business Climate Delina Ibrahimaj stated today that the government is considering a mature increase in pensions, in order to approve a sustainable scheme.
“An imprudent increase could lead to the collapse of public finances in the span of 5-6 years. It would not only lead to the deterioration of the lives of pensioners, but of all the conditions of the country’s economy, which we have tried to consolidate with a lot of effort and solid steps, so that today to talk about pension increases”, she said in a media interview.
While the government is calculating in detail the new scheme regarding the pension increase, the opposition has made its stance clear.
DP has proposed that every elderly person, including those who have never paid insurance, will have a basic pension of at least 200 euros per month and, on this basis, all other pensioners will have a pension increase of 20%.
But, Minister Ibrahimaj argued that this is an electoral promise, which threatens and endangers the pension scheme.
“It is very easy to make promises when you are in the opposition because you have no responsibility for keeping the promises. To increase the minimum pension to 200 thousand ALL and then increase it by 20% every year, especially the second one, is a very difficult promise to keep. 20% is too much”, said Ibrahimaj.
She said that this is not a sustainable scheme.
The Minister of State for Entrepreneurship and Business Climate also spoke about the Christmas bonus, which she assured will be higher than last year.
She reminded that this bonus is annual. /r.e/p.s./
