2738 pensions cut in Greece
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The Greek Government is expected to cut hundreds of pensions from the Greek Agrarian Institute Entity (OGA), which pays pensions to at least 17.000 Albanian minority members.

After the recent census, which ended in July, 1738 homogenous persons from the former Soviet Union countries did not appear at the respective office. The government has also started an investigation for everyone who benefited this pension illegally.

The OGA director declared on a press release that the Greek State has lost more than 14 million EUR annually and they will make everything possible that the homogenous people from Russia, Bulgaria, Egypt and Albania will not receive the 360 EUR pension of this entity without the respective documentation,

In October the Greek government cut the pensions to 3050 members of the Greek Minority in Albania, removing more than 15 million EUR annually from the Albanian Market. It remains unknown how many of these 2738 pensions will be cut to the members of the Greek Minority in Albania.

The issue of suspect pensions in all schemes is being investigated by the Greek government for the last six months, which, according to specialists, has caused to the Greek state a damage of 120 million EUR. Specialists add that if a solution will not be found, there will be problems with the payment of the pensions of thousands of retired people, including the biggest scheme, the Social Insurance Institution, in which most of the Albanians are insured.