{"id":18744,"date":"2021-08-13T17:19:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T15:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=18744"},"modified":"2021-08-13T17:19:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T15:19:12","slug":"thousands-of-albanians-without-retirements-benefits-in-italy-due-to-lack-of-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/thousands-of-albanians-without-retirements-benefits-in-italy-due-to-lack-of-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Albanians without retirements benefits in Italy due to lack of agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Madrit worked in Italy for 12 years and another 27 years in Albania but he isn\u2019t receiving a full retirement check. Albania doesn\u2019t recognize his retirement age and neither does Italy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe left back in 1991, when the first wave of emigrants left Albania. We began working and after working for 12 years, I returned home. I am currently living here with half a retirement check, even though I worked in Albania for 27 years, and I receive 140 euro per month, because I lack the years that I spent working in Italy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>This is an issue shared by thousands of Albanian immigrants, who are asking for a combination of their employment years in Albania and Italy, so that they can benefit a full retirement pension.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have worked in Albania for 15 years, in addition to working in Italy for 10-15 years. However, neither country acknowledges our full retirement age,\u201d says another citizen.<\/p>\n<p>In order to retire in Italy, a citizen should have worked a minimum of 20 years, whereas in Albania, you need a minimum of 15 insured years of work in order to benefit from a partial pension, and 35 years for a full one.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a total of 502 000 registered Albanian emigrants working in Italy at the moment, out of whom 260 000 are fully insured.<\/p>\n<p>Almost yearly, there are around 25 000 Albanians in Italy, who reach their retirement age. The reciprocal acknowledgment of employment years is an issue that affects these citizens\u2019 livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by Euronews Albania, the Ministry of Diaspora said that our country is currently in the process of reaching an agreement regarding the reciprocal recognition of contributions.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, Albania has reached agreements regarding this issue with 10 countries including:<\/p>\n<p>Germany<\/p>\n<p>Belgium<\/p>\n<p>Austria<\/p>\n<p>Czech Republic<\/p>\n<p>Luxemburg<\/p>\n<p>Rumania<\/p>\n<p>Turkey<\/p>\n<p>Canada<\/p>\n<p>North Macedonia<\/p>\n<p>Kosovo<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/news\/2021\/03\/31\/9295\/\">Economic Study: Over 90% of retirement pensions are lower than the bare minimum<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/04\/14\/bank-of-albania-report-on-the-effects-of-the-pandemic-the-least-affected-sector-agriculture\/\">Bank of Albania report on the effects of the pandemic: The least affected sector, agriculture<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/05\/20\/abusive-rise-of-prices-for-groceries-zmk-international-markets-14-in-albania-up-to-66\/\">Abusive rise of prices for groceries, ZMK: International markets 14%, in Albania up to 66%<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madrit worked in Italy for 12 years and another 27 years in Albania but he isn\u2019t receiving a full retirement check. Albania doesn\u2019t recognize his retirement age and neither does Italy. \u201cWe left back in 1991, when the first wave of emigrants left Albania. We began working and after working for 12 years, I returned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":18746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thousands of Albanians without retirements benefits in Italy due to lack of agreement - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/thousands-of-albanians-without-retirements-benefits-in-italy-due-to-lack-of-agreement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thousands of Albanians without retirements benefits in Italy due to lack of agreement - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Madrit worked in Italy for 12 years and another 27 years in Albania but he isn\u2019t receiving a full retirement check. 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