ZAGREB, Sept 2 (Hina) - The National Coordination Centre of Homeland War Associations on Monday said the government should pass by-laws to the Law on the Rights of Croatian Homeland War Veterans within a month, so that the veterans
could exercise their rights.
ZAGREB, Sept 2 (Hina) - The National Coordination Centre of
Homeland War Associations on Monday said the government should pass
by-laws to the Law on the Rights of Croatian Homeland War Veterans
within a month, so that the veterans could exercise their rights.
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On behalf of the coordination centre, Slavica Hruskar told
reporters that the lack of by-laws and regulations caused chaos
surrounding retirement papers issued to veterans by the Pension
Insurance Institute.
This is an infringe on acquired rights, the veterans' medical
diagnoses and assessments of their working abilities are changed,
Hruskar said. In his opinion, this is why veterans are receiving
significantly lower pensions than they should.
She warned about the problems of veterans in war-struck areas where
they were being evicted from houses Serbs had abandoned when they
fled Croatia during the "Storm" military liberation operation.
Marija Macek of the Federation of Associations of Missing and
Detained Persons' Families said that these families were also
having trouble with realising their rights because by-laws to the
law on the rights of veterans had not been passed.
The coordination centre is also dissatisfied with the
implementation of stimulating measures for employment and self-
employment of Croatian Homeland War veterans, for which, the centre
believes, there is no more money.
Tom Kacinari of the Association of Homeland War Volunteers said
that because of their inability to pay back loans, unemployed
veterans had become "veterans in debt".
Since the government already wrote off debts of shipyards,
veterans' debts amounting to 319 million kuna for loans for self-
employment should also be written off, he said.
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