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This Is Theft From All Pensioners, A Legal Disgrace And A Scandal

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Following a veto by the National Council, Members of Parliament have now once again passed a law that will grant a carefully selected handful of artists extremely high pension supplements. The Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) has announced that it will start collecting signatures for a legislative referendum. The public had warned …

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When MP Černač Showed Culture Minister Vrečko That The Woman Who Breastfed A Dog Would Get The “Golden Pension,” The Minister Went Crazy

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“Look, people have to work for 40 years. Two hundred thousand of them don’t even have a pension of 750 euros. All of these people are artists, because surviving with such a low amount of money is art,” MP Zvonko Černač of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) pointed out on a …

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We Have Never Had A Government That Behaved So Poorly Towards Pensioners And People With Disabilities

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Out of a total of 533,292 pension recipients, around 309,000 pensioners, or 58 percent of the total, receive a pension below the poverty line. As many as 51,889 pensioners receive a pension of less than 500 euros a month. The hardship is growing, with the coalition taking 60 percent of one month’s pension from each …

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They Rejected The Referendum On Pensions For The Privileged Few By Breaking The Rules Of Procedure

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“Judge Urška, who currently presides over the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia, says that she herself has no explanation for her vote, but she has said that she will vote against the proposal. She has violated the Rules of Procedure again, because there is no explanation of vote in the vote in question,” …

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State Theft Of Your Pensions For The “Deserving Few”

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By quickly legislating the maximum pensions for a large number of “deserving” cultural workers who did not pay for their pensions themselves, the parties of the government coalition – the Freedom Movement (Gibanje Svoboda), the Social Democrats (Socialni demokrati – SD) and the Left party (Levica) – are dismantling the public pension system. The scale …

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These Are The Changes To The Pensions And Retirement That The Golob Government Is Preparing

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Slovenian pensioners are one of the most neglected groups of Slovenian citizens under the government of Robert Golob. The government is now working on making some changes to retirement legislation – the so-called pension reform, which was classified and hidden in the crucial run-up to the European elections. We are also witnessing a number of …

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SDS: The Government Should Harmonise Pensions Because It Has Once Again Deprived The Pensioners

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“After almost two years of the government of the Freedom Movement (Gibanje Svoboda), the Social Democrats (Socialni demokrati – SD) and the Left party (Levica), the financial and social situation of pensioners has drastically worsened, not least because of the unfulfilled promises or commitments made by the coalition parties to pensioners,” says the Slovenian Democratic …

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The January Pensions Will Be Lower; Pensioners Will Protest On Wednesday!

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On Tuesday, pensioners will receive their pensions. But beware, they will be extremely low. This is driving some people to despair. That is why the first pensioners’ protest will be held in Ljubljana on Wednesday. Ahead of the January pension payments, which will be made on the last day of January, the Pension and Disability …

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The Voice Of Pensioners: We Are Not Asking For Mercy, We Are Demanding What People Have Fought For All Their Lives

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The government prevented an extraordinary adjustment of pensions before the New Year, while the pensioners are increasingly worried about the rising prices. This has provoked, among other things, a nationwide protest of the pensioners, which will take place on the 1st of February in Ljubljana. The organiser of the protest is the civil initiative The …

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Golob’s Government Opposes State Pensions, Base Increases And Higher Pensions

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At Thursday’s session, the government rejected the proposal of the parliamentary group led by Jelka Godec (Slovenian Democratic Party – Slovenska demokratska stranka: SDS) to re-introduce the state pension. They also rejected the proposal to increase the amount of the guaranteed old-age pension for 40 years of the pension period to the amount of 771 …

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