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The Minister of Health and Social Protection Ogerta Manastirliu, in her speech in the Parliament stated that in these times of global crises, the Albanian government has shown unwavering to keep all the promised commitments before the citizens.
Manastirliu underlined that despite the COVID19 pandemic that the health system faced, health professionals were supported with a salary increase of + 40%, while the increase will continue with 6% from July this year.
“In these times filled with global crises and events beyond human control, we have never wavered in fulfilling our obligations and the commitments we have made to the people. This government has stood and will continue to stand by any commitment made to support them. It is a fact that the government has had and has in its priorities the policy of increasing salaries for this category of professionals. We pledged to increase salaries and only a year ago and I am referring to it, only 2021 as I refer to the difficult year of the pandemic, in January 2021 we increased 40% salaries for health personnel. With this year’s budget, starting from July, the salaries for the health personnel will increase again by 6%, thus keeping our commitment “, said Manastirliu.
Speaking about the package of social resistance, Minister Manastirliu said that 576 thousand citizens will be supported by this package.
“The Resistance Package supports 576 thousand citizens of this country who for the next three months will be compensated for the increase in the prices of the basic basket caused by the increase in prices in international markets starting from April. This package supports the most vulnerable and most affected groups, including pensioners earning less than the minimum wage, pensioners living alone, people with disabilities, paraplegics, tetraplegics, the blind, the disabled at work and all families who benefit from the support of the economic assistance program. There are 64 thousand beneficiary families that will be supported by this package being directly supported for 3 months with 3 thousand ALL per month as an effect of inflation calculated by INSTAT for the impact of basic products on basket prices“, Declared Manastirliu.
The Minister of Health said that with the budget of 2022, the Economic Assistance package has tripled for children without parental care, has doubled for families with more than 3 children and increased by 10% for all families benefiting from this scheme.
“Let’s not forget that the 2022 budget, starting from January of this year, has increased in terms of economic assistance program by 1.5 billion ALL and respectively we have doubled the amount of Economic Assistance for families beneficiaries of this scheme who have over three children, we have tripled the amount of economic assistance from January of this year for children without parental care, we have increased the amount of economic assistance for other families by 10% “, stressed Manastirliu
The package of social resistance supports 576 thousand citizens, who for the next three months will be compensated for the price increase for basket products. The government has decided that for the next 3 months an aid package of 30 thousand old lekë per month for 3 consecutive months to support the increase of basket prices. 202 thousand pensioners who will benefit, over 52 thousand people with disabilities, over 6 thousand 100 paraplegic and tetraplegic individuals, over 12 thousand blind and over 64 thousand families who benefit from the economic assistance package. The government has decided to immediately index the pensions in the amount of 33 million dollars, which will be immediately reflected in the next pension for 673 thousand pensioners.
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