Pensioners

Solidarity aid package

06.February 2026. NM

Rankings and priorities: How to get solidarity assistance for pensioners?

The Republic Fund for Pension and Disability Insurance announced that the registration of pension beneficiaries for the allocation of solidarity aid packages has started this week. Who can get them

Demographics of protests

05.February 2026. Slobodan Bubnjević

A generation waiting for attention

Is there a war of generations in Serbia? According to known statistics on student support, two out of three pensioners support the regime, and among the working population aged 30 to 65, the opposite is true – two out of three support students. This is an unusually large imbalance that the regime exploits, and which, given that Serbia is an increasingly aging society, cannot be ignored.

03.February 2026. MLJ

Elections are coming: Pension Olympics and bigger packages of solidarity aid

Registration of pension beneficiaries for the allocation of solidarity aid packages through pensioner associations began on February 2 and continues until the 25th of the month. The state has allocated significantly more money, and is also organizing the Pensioner Olympics

The third age

20.January 2026. Ivan Mitkovski

How to get a pension of over 250.000 dinars?

Who actually receives the most pensions in Serbia and according to which rules are they calculated?

The third age

19.January 2026. IN THE

How many pensioners in Serbia receive a pension of 230.145 dinars?

How many citizens of Serbia receive a maximum pension of over 230.000 dinars, and how many receive less than 30.000 dinars?

A pensioner at the post office counter, money in his hands and a female worker

Pensioners

13.January 2026. KS

Pension supplement: Misconception about "5.000 dinars"

Misinterpreted media headlines caused unrealistic expectations of pensioners. What is it really about?

Life in poverty

03.January 2026. Milica Srejić

Poverty in Serbia: How to survive another year

In Serbia, at least a quarter of people barely make ends meet, and the number of absolutely poor countries is deliberately not published. Those people, says the interlocutor of "Vremen", are condemned to false promises and political blackmail of the authorities, and to life with their noses just above water.

Pensions

01.January 2026. Katarina Stevanović

What changes for pensioners in 2026

The new year brings new rules for retirees and new amounts on the pension check. But the incomes of the oldest continue to trot behind price increases

Pensions

01.December 2025. Bojan Bednar

Increasing pensions: Care of the state or fight for votes?

The average pension this year amounts to 47,3 percent of the average salary, so a 12,2 percent increase in pensions will benefit pensioners, according to "Vremena" interlocutors.

International Day of the Elderly

01.October 2025. Bojan Bednar

Survival of pensioners in Serbia: Some go for "red" and a sandwich, some for wages

450.000 pensioners in Serbia have a pension of less than 25.000 dinars, and one million of them have less than the average pension of 50.360 dinars, Miloš Grabundžija from the Union of Pensioners "Nezavisnost" told Vreme.

Vučić as an economist

26.September 2025. Marija L. Jankovic

How did Vučić kick out 45.000 pensioners from electricity discounts?

The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, announced yet another megalomaniacal discount of up to 1.000 dinars for electricity for poor pensioners. In his calculation, he "missed" 45.000 pensioners somewhere

Standard of living

04.September 2025. KS

Pensions are convincingly losing the race with wages

Since the progressives came to power, the average pension in Serbia is not even half of the average salary. The real trouble is that half a million pensioners survive on less than 250 euros a month

Pensions

29.August 2025. KS

Pension increase: Who gets the most and who barely survives?

While more than half a million pensioners in Serbia live on less than 30.000 dinars per month, the government announces a 12 percent increase in pensions. What does this mean for the average pensioner and how much extra will those with the lowest incomes get?

Corruption of the people

28.August 2025. Ivan Milenkovic

Is there life after Vučić?

"In a country that its president persistently claims is a welfare state, pensioners, especially those with lower pensions, have been turned into a group of suitable voters," says anthropologist Miloš Matić. "That (mis)use is based on the regularity of receiving pensions as an insignia of a secure existence, although that existence actually implies a low level of quality of life. And security is what people always need. With old age, the need for security prevails"

Comment

26.August 2025. Nemanja Rujevic

Vučić's poor

Along with Aleksandar Vučić, the majority are only pensioners and those who are at least 8 years old. In other words - the poor that he made the most of and in whom he trusts again

Pension

08.August 2025. S.Ć.

The pensioners of Niš are asking for a 60 percent increase in their pensions

It is not true that pensions have never been higher, say Niš pensioners, and they are demanding an increase in pensions of 60 percent of the average salary. They also say that their influence on political decision-making is marginalized

Poverty and arrogance

25.June 2025 MLJ

Who is hungry - Vučić or the people

Around 450 citizens of Serbia do not have any meal every day, not for the strawberries and cherries that Vučić takes pictures with. These are not only the homeless, but also pensioners with low incomes. The Food Bank says that each of us can go without food

PIO fund

01.March 2025. S.Ć.

From whose money the PIO fund paid the rent close to 60.000 euros

While waiting for the reconstruction of the building in New Belgrade to be completed, the PIO fund has been paying around 60.000 euros per month for rent in the villa of the company "Marneks W" for almost two years.

Pensioners in Kosovska Mitrovica

13.February 2025. IN THE

"Are the students misled by truth and justice or by foreign mercenaries"

The square in Kosovska Mitrovica was a sort of podium for two older fellow citizens to express their conflicting views on the months-long student blockades across Serbia. They also touched on Serbia's policy towards Kosovo and gave advice to the President of Serbia

Does support for Vučić fall among the oldest?

13.February 2025. Marija L. Jankovic

Pensioner with student prescription

They are known as the electorate that has the hardest time changing their attitude, and as a rule they vote for the government. Have the students now succeeded in something that no one else has - to initiate the oldest and be their kind of guides for political thinking

"Vreme" at the protest of pensioners

05.February 2025. Katarina Stevanović

"Let it be clear to this government that they have reached the end": Protest of pensioners on Republic Square

The gathering began at 10.30:XNUMX a.m., after which a planned walk to Student Square, where they will greet students from the surrounding faculties, and after that they will pay their respects together to the victims of the fall of the Novi Sad railway, as well as the victims of the Home for the Elderly in Barajevo

Protests

31.January 2025. B. B.

Pensioners will also support students

I'm not sure that the majority of pensioners support the current government, the president of the Union of Retired Military Personnel of Serbia, Jovan Tamburić, told "Vremena", announcing a gathering of pensioners on February 5, who will organize their support for students that day

Evading the law

15.January 2025. IN THE

RTS: Homes for the elderly - there is only one way to check if they are safe

The Social Protection Inspectorate closed another illegal home for the elderly in Belgrade, bringing the number of prohibited facilities to 157.

Pensioners

23.December 2024. B. B.

How much will the December pension supplement be?

The payment of the supplement to pensions in Serbia of less than 65.716,70 dinars will be up to five percent of the amount of the December pension

Pensioners in Serbia

06.December 2024. SZ

How much pensions will 1.652.900 pensioners receive?

Besides the fact that most pensioners cannot make ends meet, their position in society is very unenviable. How much will the pension increase of 10,9 percent help them?

Cost of living

15.November 2024. Tijana Stanic

Student and pensioner cards: How useful are they really?

Applications for student cards began a year ago and a little earlier for pensioners. Both of them should provide citizens with significant discounts - or so it is said. Is that really so?

A story from life

12.September 2024. Sonja Ciric

How the PIO fund cheated me

Or: how I discovered that the contact center of the PIO fund has three voice machines, that two are set up to disperse current and future pensioners, and that only the third works properly, but only on the condition that you understand the instructions it gives you