The new law, age and years-of-service criteria for those who want to postpone the retirement date. The supplement for each month is determined on the basis used to calculate the pension after increases and indexation. AGE AND INSURANCE PERIOD REQUIRED IN YEARS FOR EACH CATEGORY RETIREMENT POSTPONEMENT The benefit amount increases to 0.5% The new law, age and years-of-service criteria for those who want to postpone the retirement date. The supplement for each month is determined on the basis used to calculate the pension after increases and indexation. By OLA MITRE The new law “On Social Insurance”, which comes into force on 1 January 2015, provides for an increase in the benefit for those people who request postponement of the retirement date. This applies to all those who meet the age and years-of-service criteria for an old-age pension, but who ask for the retirement date to be postponed. According to the new law, every insured person who has met these conditions will receive an additional amount of 0.5 percent of the pension for each month they postpone the retirement date and continue to pay contributions. These people will Continues on page 11

Interior Minister: The police acted correctly, but in such cases you need a bit of luck “I have no intention of running for the Tirana Municipality. The PS parliamentary group supports my work. The accusations by Tom Doshi and Pjerin Ndreu? I will not move even a centimeter from my determination to fight crime.” (In the photo:) Interior Minister Saimir Tahiri with the special forces. Banker Artan Santo. The businessman’s car and the two perpetrators of the crime, a few minutes before the murder “I have no intention of running for the Tirana Municipality. The PS parliamentary group supports my work. The accusations by Tom Doshi and Pjerin Ndreu? I will not move even one centimeter from my determination to fight crime.” The Interior Minister, Saimir Tahiri, spoke yesterday publicly about the most discussed issues of security and order in Albania. During the program “Debati” on “Channel One”, with journalist Roland Qafoku, Tahiri described Albania as a safer country after one year On pages 4-5

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Today’s Opinion It is a little-explored field in Albanian scientific thought. One of the foundational works of this line of thought ... It is a little-explored field in Albanian scientific thought. One of the foundational works of this line of thought ... Continues on page 21

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