ZAGREB, Sept 24 (Hina) - Croatian Parliament President Zlatko Tomcic has promised representatives of Croats receiving pensions from Serbia and Montenegro that their problems with pensions would be resolved soon, the Society of
Vojvodina and Danube River Region Croats and the Association of Croats Expelled from Srijem, Backa, and Banat said on Wednesday.
ZAGREB, Sept 24 (Hina) - Croatian Parliament President Zlatko
Tomcic has promised representatives of Croats receiving pensions
from Serbia and Montenegro that their problems with pensions would
be resolved soon, the Society of Vojvodina and Danube River Region
Croats and the Association of Croats Expelled from Srijem, Backa,
and Banat said on Wednesday. #L#
At a meeting with them yesterday, Tomcic said a bill of amendments
to the law on the right to compensation on pensions would be put to
parliament in a matter of days, moved by his Croatian Peasant
Party.
About 4,500 Croats who left Serbia and Montenegro for Croatia
during the 1990s war have been having problems with pensions, which
are late and very low.
Based on a social insurance agreement between the two countries
which went into force on May 1, pension funds from Serbia and
Montenegro have started paying pensions to the aforementioned
Croats, but only to some, the associations say.
They add the pensions are as much as 50-60 percent lower than those
they received within the Croatian pension system.
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