Tag: piom
Macedonia 24.02.22 | 16:45

Alternative Party officials celebrated their take-over of the Retirement Fund with loud Albanian music

The Alternative Party threw a loud celebration in the PIOM retirement fund, after its official Dritan Bexheti was named its director. The Kovacevski Government removed Biljana Jovanovski as director of the huge institution that distributes retirement incomes to hundreds of thousands of retirees. Jovanovska...
Macedonia 29.10.21 | 21:29

SDSM sent public employees to bribe retirees ahead of the key run-off race on Sunday

SDSM party activists were recorded in a retirement home in Aerodrom today, trying to bribe the residents into voting for their mayoral candidate in Skopje Petre Silegov on Sunday. The video, published by the Kurir news site, shows several persons distributing supplies as well as materials promoting Silegov,...
Macedonia 11.12.20 | 19:43

Head of the PIOM retirement fund allowed her husband to run this huge institution

Biljana Jovanovska, head of the PIOM public retirement fund, allows her husband Tomce Gjurovski to practically run the fund, reports Klan TV. The TV station followed Gjurovski, who was fired as deputy manager of PIOM in 2011, as he kept going to the huge social security fund day in and day out. When...
Economy 11.02.20 | 20:19

Retirees will be able to pay into the PIOM fund to claim publicly funded pensions

Starting next month, citizens over 65 who do not qualify for public retirement pensions will be able to pay to enter the PIOM retirement scheme. Citizens who have not worked and paid into the PIOM fund for at least 15 years do not qualify for retirement income, but they will be able to enter for a fee....
Macedonia 16.01.20 | 20:47

Gevgelija man arrested for pension fraud

A man from Gevgelija was arrested for defrauding people he duped into paying him for money allegedly owed to the PIOM public pension fund. The 41 year old man would present himself as an agent of PIOM and tell families that they are owed money by PIOM for a late relative of theirs. But, there would be...
Economy 20.06.19 | 15:06

Minister Carovska claims that she stabilized the retirement system

Labour and Welfare Minister Mila Carovska made a claim today that the state run retirement fund PIOM is stabilized after the tax increases the Parliament introduced, and that for the first time in a long while, retirement payments are being made without borrowing. The measures we undertook to stabilize...
Economy 12.02.19 | 09:43

World Bank suggests that Macedonia extends the retirement age in order to save its pension system

World Bank calls on Macedonia to increase the retirement age, warning that without reforms the pension system will continue to be unsustainable. According to a WB report, the system is also not fair enough, and a strong policy reform push would stabilize the PIOM fund and make it more fair. The Bank...
Economy 29.01.19 | 18:46

Charges of abuse in the PIOM retirement fund cause rift in the SDSM – DUI coalition

An investigation in the missing retirement payments of 12.000 public and private employees, which Labour and Welfare Minister Mila Carovski from the SDSM party announced this week, caused a rift with SDSM’s coalition partner DUI, whose officials manage the PIOM state owned retirement fund. Deputy...

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