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Half of Bulgarian pensioners to get 25 leva Christmas bonuses
Photo: Krassimir Yuskesseliev
About 1.1 million pensioners will get one-off 25 leva Christmas bonuses added to their regular pension payments, the Bulgarian Government's website said on December 13 2009.
Pensioners will get the money after the Christmas holidays on January 4 2010. Only pensioners whose monthly pensions are less than 200 leva will get the bonus.
The money will come from funds made available by cost-cutting by the state administration "and this is the maximum amount of money we can spent on pensioners' bonuses this year," Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said after meeting Finance Minister Simeon Dyankov.
The reason why other Bulgarian pensioners, who number 1.2 million people, will not get bonuses this year was that the Budget could only afford bonuses only for those people who were in dire financial straits. Last year, all Bulgaria's pensioners got a 50 leva Christmas bonus.
To get the funds, Borissov asked all ministries and other state bodies not to give Christmas bonuses to their employees, although some such as Agriculture Ministry had made the required cuts to spending.
Borissov apologised to state administration employees for not giving them their traditional Christmas bonuses this year, and said that together with Dyankov, he was working on a scheme to compensate for this in 2010.
Pensioners will get the money after the Christmas holidays on January 4 2010. Only pensioners whose monthly pensions are less than 200 leva will get the bonus.
The money will come from funds made available by cost-cutting by the state administration "and this is the maximum amount of money we can spent on pensioners' bonuses this year," Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said after meeting Finance Minister Simeon Dyankov.
The reason why other Bulgarian pensioners, who number 1.2 million people, will not get bonuses this year was that the Budget could only afford bonuses only for those people who were in dire financial straits. Last year, all Bulgaria's pensioners got a 50 leva Christmas bonus.
To get the funds, Borissov asked all ministries and other state bodies not to give Christmas bonuses to their employees, although some such as Agriculture Ministry had made the required cuts to spending.
Borissov apologised to state administration employees for not giving them their traditional Christmas bonuses this year, and said that together with Dyankov, he was working on a scheme to compensate for this in 2010.
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The most a government in Bulgaria has ever alloted for pensioneers is the modest BGN 100 for EVERY pensioneer, given during the previous government ruling. And that's it! Now BGN 25 for HALF of the pensioneers is stated as a BIG gesture?!
Seriously guys, who would pay for more?
The biggest problem BG faces is the demographic lopsidedness of the working (tax paying) vs retirees.
There are armies of seniors, who's retirements funds were blown away/stolen by the commies or wasted somewhere in the transition - not there, basically. The government companies they worked for aren't there either. That's our legacy.
To make things worse, most have sent their kids to the west for better life, and the younger Bulgarians just aren't having that many babies. Also, the the old folks, bless them, seem bent on [...]
Read the full comment outliving us all;)
My dear mom would soon have been a pensioner for about as long as she's worked - about 40 years each. I keep joking with her, that her type will bring BG down... I pay for all of her expenses, but she's proud of her pension and, I think, is saving it in some fund or other...
Aries, don't speak like a Greek, will you?
It's sram i pozor, not shram i pojor.
I love it! That's exactly how a Greek would pronounce it, and I can't believe that you even wrote it that way.
Appreciate the effort though;) Cute.
Shram i pojor
25 leva. Ooooh. So this is enough to buy a cheap sweater in the city of Sofia. Is this a joke? It's insane that a pension could possibly be less that 250 leva to being with!