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EMPLOYED PENSIONERS, ROBBING BY LAW

2026-03-16 13:32:00, Opinione Xhovan Shyti

In addition to the ridiculous amounts offered for monthly pension payments, with an average of 18 thousand, another absurdity turns out to be present in the pension law.

According to this law, retired people are not prohibited from working (in private activities), but they are not allowed to benefit from health report payments, nor do they benefit from additional years of retirement.

The fact that turns this legal prohibition of employed pensioners from benefiting from health report payments, as well as the denial of additional years of work, into absurdity comes while they regularly pay social and health contributions, in short, they pay every obligation, like all retired employees.

According to the explanations provided by ISSH officials, who refer to the law in force, if employed pensioners wish to benefit from the denied payment (of the health report and recognition of years of work), should they not receive the monthly pension payment?

For example, if a pensioner has ended his working career with 29 years of work (while many other years of work have been eaten up by the unworthy policies of the governments and the cruelty of the owners where they served, who have withheld their contributions, but have not paid them), he will darken his life with this same "mistreatment", because, we emphasize: Even after 10 years of continuous work, with contributions and social security paid, he is treated like any ordinary unemployed pensioner, who does not go to work, spends his time playing dominoes, billiards, backgammon, cards, etc., etc., in other words, who vegetates.

That rightfully receives what it has sown in the past years, without continuing its social contribution (the absurdity here also lies in the fantastic pensions that benefit former high-ranking officials, ministers, MPs, military personnel, former directors, etc., categories privileged by law).

These two categories of pensioners: employees who continue to contribute and pensioners only, are treated equally by the ISSH since the government law in force does not allow it to act differently. The defect in the law, which has been going on for decades, is confidentially acknowledged even by the officials of the Insurance Institute themselves, who assess it as "illogical" and "absurd."

But that's it, that's all. They say that the practice of denying payment of medical reports and continuing recognition of years of work denied during retirement is hoped to be included in the new draft law.

Because the alternative of choosing: either retirement, without the deserved benefits of the health report and the years of work denied, or just retirement, is illogical. Due to the fact that the monthly pension payment is to receive what you have sown in the past years, while employment during retirement is a new contributory chapter.

This is the reason why the non-payment of the health report and the non-recognition of additional years of work in retirement are a kind of legal robbery./ CNA