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RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY INSURANCE FUND WILL SET ASIDE 800 MILLION DINARS TO COMPENSATE FOR THE DIFFERENCE IN FUNERAL EXPENSES

28. August 2015.

The Retirement and Disability Insurance Fund will set aside nearly 800 million dinars to make up the difference for all the funeral expenses of the deceased agricultural pensioners, 66,338 of them, who died in the period from January 1, 2008 to September 30, 2013.

During that period, those who organized the funerals were given by the fund the amount of one and a half farmer’s check. However, at the recommendation of the State Audit Institution, the amount of monetary compensation was to be in the amount of one and a half average pension in Serbia.

The agricultural pension is slightly higher than 10,000 dinars, while the current national average is 23.175 dinars. That means that the Retirement and Disability Insurance Fund is to pay to the heirs the difference, depending on the time of death of the pensioners, from 10,000 to 13,000 dinars.

The Republican Fund for Pension and Disability Insurance emphasizes that all those who, in that period, received monetary compensation for burial expenses arising from the death of retired farmers, will have the right to get the difference.

“The Fund informs and invites all those to whom the said right belongs to contact the branch office of the Fund that paid the money to them. In addition, all interested parties can obtain information on where to apply and what documents to submit in order to exercise this right at the counters of our branches.  In any case, we offer a systemic solution to the issue, so that we could in the quickest and most cost effective way realize the payment where there are grounds for it, so there is no need for citizens to submit individual complaints."

Source: RTV Rhythm and Coordination Body