Minister Mr. Abrashi and Association of Pensioners of Kosovo agreed on the value of categorizing the degree of education contributing pensioners

Minister of Labour and Social Welfare Mr. Arban Abrashi has waited in the working meeting today with leaders of the Association of Pensioners of Kosovo, headed by President Mr. Shaban Kajtazi.

In this meeting they discussed the process of categorizing contributing pensioners pension by their level of education. The Minister informed the guests that the categorization process is moving towards finalization, are being processed close to 17,000 applications for categorization and expects that retroactive payments for 4 months for these categories done by the end of this month. The meeting also reached Compatibility for the amount to be contributing pensioners receive by education, a proposal that will be presented at the next meeting of the Government for approval.

Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Association of Pensioners of Kosovo, Mr. Shaban Kajtazi, on behalf of pensioners thanked Minister Abrashi and Government in general about the steps taken to implement the categorization by level of education and their commitment to continuing efforts to improve the conditions pensioners and realization of their rights.