
All categories, from the beneficiaries of economic assistance, the disabled, those with social pension or disability receive 5 thousand ALL as a bonus for the end of the year. Employees of the state administration, part of the process of Albania's integration into the EU, will also be beneficiaries of the reward, as well as for every police officer for their food compensation, Minister of Finance Ervin Mete announced in a press release.
"Today, at the meeting of the Council of Ministers, we approved the Normative Act for some amendments to the 2023 Budget, with the main aim of completing the solidarity package, after the two bonuses granted to pensioners, completing this package and for a number of layers in need.
The package includes social bonuses to the same extent as the remuneration just awarded to pensioners for:
64 thousand beneficiaries of economic aid;
73 thousand beneficiaries of disability support payments;
36 thousand families with children in economic assistance;
68 thousand work invalids;
44 thousand beneficiaries of family pensions.
Also, a reward is foreseen for 1144 employees of the state administration, representatives in the bilateral meetings held within the process of negotiations for membership in the EU, also because of the commendable results and the high evaluations they received from the European Commission.
There is a support for each police officer for their food allowance in a total value of about 800 million Lek.
There is support for all municipalities, such as an additional unconditional grant to address arrears. The total allowance for all municipalities according to the predetermined list amounts to ALL 2 billion.
Also, there are reallocations in terms of capital expenditures for the financing of infrastructural projects, in roads and waterways, giving another boost to public investments.
In total, the reallocations that are distributed with this normative act are about 20 billion ALL, while the planned level of income remains unchanged, as well as the projections for the public debt".