Sanader`s Government Increases No. Of War Invalids

In three years HDZ authorities gave the status of war invalids to 10,000 defenders.

During the government`s mandate, 33,000 claims for the war invalid status came in, while due to the extension of the legal dead-line where every defender who brings a medical documentation on their illness can request an invalid status, regardless of the fact more than 10 years have past from the war.

This caused an increase of war invalid numbers of around 44,000, and still growing. Namely, even 75 percent of requests were approved and another increase of 15,000 is expected, the Jutarnji list daily reports. In this year`s budget even 411 million kuna was reserved for invalid pensions, but also additional 91 million for “new” war invalids.

With the status of an invalid, a person obtains the right to an invalid defender`s pension, which is 4,955 kuna in average, while retirement according to age is around 2,100 kuna. Seeing how the situation in the country is bad, surely each defender will try to use their right and insure their safe future.