Apart from the billboard in the campaign, Prime Minister Milojko Spajić and his Government last fall, while presenting Europe Now 2, repeatedly promised all pensioners, except those receiving minimum pensions, a January increase.
Since yesterday, after the Pension Fund announced that January pensions have been adjusted and will be higher by 6,85 percent, the figures are different. Only for those who receive more than 730 euros, January pensions will be increased by 50 euros or more. According to the data we received from the Pension Fund, there are about 12 thousand (11.997) of them. This means that almost 28 and a half thousand of those who receive more than the minimum and less than 730 will not receive 50 euros or more.
Pensioners with an average pension in Montenegro, which in December amounted to 520 euros, will not receive a pension of 20 or 50 euros more on the 60th of this month, but 35,6 euros. Those who receive at least one euro more than 450 euros will not receive 40, 50 or 60 euros, but a mere 31 euros.
Monitor journalist Zoran Radulovć tells TV Vijesti that it was easy to calculate the moment the Europe Now 2 program was presented to us that it was not a "billboard increase" that was being prepared, but rather an adjustment of pensions, which is a legal obligation.
The opposition claims that the promised increase in pensions of 50 euros for everyone turned out to be unrealistic, as did the promise that all salaries under the same program would be 25 percent higher.
On the other hand, PES does not comment on the fact that almost 70 percent of those who receive more than the minimum will not receive 50 euros or more.
After initially stating that all pensioners would receive 50-60 euros, the Prime Minister changed his rhetoric. He said that 50 euros would be the average increase. Radulović points out that it might turn out to be so, but that the average and the reality are completely different.
"It's the same here with the average bill, and what most citizens see in their bank account or wallet or when they go to the store or pharmacy,..., the post office to pay their bills," he said.
When all of this is translated into purchasing power, despite the fact that this increase is greater than all of last year, pensioners will certainly quickly spend 30 and 50 euros or more.
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