{"id":27444,"date":"2021-12-15T17:34:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T16:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=27444"},"modified":"2021-12-15T17:37:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T16:37:05","slug":"government-to-hand-out-compensation-for-pensioners-and-disadvantaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/government-to-hand-out-compensation-for-pensioners-and-disadvantaged\/","title":{"rendered":"Government to hand out compensation for pensioners and disadvantaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pensioners will receive \u20ac40 in compensation from the government for the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are 668,000 pensioners that will benefit from the package granted today worth \u20ac29 million\u201d, said finance minister Delina Ibrahimaj.<\/p>\n<p>Among the other beneficiary categories are vulnerable families and people with disabilities, who will receive \u20ac25.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are around 72,000 individuals that will benefit from end-year compensations. The fund at the disposal for this category is around $4 million USD\u201d, said health minister Ogerta Manastirliu.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was a result of a government meeting on Wednesday, while the total sum going as compensation for all categories is circa $40 million USD.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/12\/03\/representatives-from-dp-and-sp-speak-on-issues-with-the-current-pensions-scheme-on-rinon\/\">DP and SP representatives speak on issues of the current pension scheme on RinON<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/good-morning\/2021\/11\/18\/albanian-expats-hopeless-on-getting-retirement-pensions-in-italy\/\">Albanian expats hopeless on getting retirement pensions in Italy<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><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<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pensioners will receive \u20ac40 in compensation from the government for the holidays. \u201cThere are 668,000 pensioners that will benefit from the package granted today worth \u20ac29 million\u201d, said finance minister Delina Ibrahimaj. Among the other beneficiary categories are vulnerable families and people with disabilities, who will receive \u20ac25. \u201cThere are around 72,000 individuals that will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":27445,"comment_status":"open","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>Government to hand out compensation for pensioners and disadvantaged - 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\/government-to-hand-out-compensation-for-pensioners-and-disadvantaged\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Government to hand out compensation for pensioners and disadvantaged - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pensioners will receive \u20ac40 in compensation from the government for the holidays. \u201cThere are 668,000 pensioners that will benefit from the package granted today worth \u20ac29 million\u201d, said finance minister Delina Ibrahimaj. 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