PENSION FORMULA
NEW SCHEME / HOW THE OLD-AGE PENSION IS CALCULATED FROM 1 JANUARY 2015
The coefficients for wage indexation
NEW SCHEME / HOW THE OLD-AGE PENSION IS CALCULATED FROM 1 JANUARY 2015
PENSION FORMULA
The coefficients for wage indexation
The new law removed the maximum cap. The government publishes the new coefficients starting from 1994 and the reference wage for former cooperative employees, which will be 1,619 lek per month
By OLA MITRE
The new law “On social insurance”, which entered into force on 1 January 2015, establishes the removal of the maximum cap on the old-age pension, which means that calculations will be made according to a completely new formula. Meanwhile, the Council of Ministers has determined all the elements (the wage indexation coefficient from 1994, the amount of the social pension and the reference wage of workers from former agricultural cooperatives), which make it possible to calculate the amount of the pension. According to the modified formula, the monthly old-age pension consists of
On page 11
Video scandal, Nursing student handcuffed, broker for “funerals”
Sexual harassment at QSUT, the minor tells police: I don’t remember anything
The unconscious girl is touched in intimate parts. Evarist Pasha turns out to have been sentenced in 2010 to 6 years in prison for drug trafficking and illegal possession of weapons
(In photo): Evarist Pasha, the Nursing student. Footage from the video showing abuse of a minor in the QSUT premises
The unconscious girl is touched in intimate parts.
Evarist Pasha turns out to have been sentenced in 2010 to 6 years in prison for drug trafficking and illegal possession of weapons
By KLODIANA LALA
The sexual scandal that took place at the University Hospital Center “Nënë Tereza” in Tirana has led to the first suspect being handcuffed. Evarist Pasha,...
On page 6
LUL BERISHA, 8 HOURS ON SPECIAL PERMISSION, GOES HOME FOR NEW YEAR
- THE CONVICT, NEAR HIS MOTHER ON 31 DECEMBER
On page 7
“Albanian Soul” and the diplomacy of culture
Opinion of the Day
By JORGJI KOTE
When 50 million viewers from all over the world were watching the traditional New Year’s concert of the prestigious Vienna Philharmonic,...
Continued on page 21
“Albanian Soul” and the diplomacy of culture
Elections of trickery or political elections?! What are we going to do, “gentlemen”?
Opinion of the Day
By ASTRIT KOSTURI
It caught all of us by surprise that 2015 arrived somewhat differently. It arrived as a shy and somewhat cold year, not only because of the temperatures...
Continued on page 20
Elections of trickery or political elections?! What are we going to do, “gentlemen”?
Study: Public debt at record level, $3,600 per capita
“OPEN DATA”: IT WAS $3,400 IN 2014
On page 4
Master quotas redistributed, 900 places available
DISTRIBUTION BY FIELD
On page 10
Money and houses were taken from businessmen, the couple on trial
THE “EXTORTION” SCHEME
On page 8
The injured man in Vlorë: If the gun hadn’t jammed, it would have been a massacre
THE DOUBLE CRIME
On page 12
OSHEE: Electricity is missing for less than 1% of our subscribers
COLD WEATHER
On page 5
Hajredin Cakrani, the memories of the Independence signatory
AURON TARE: THE FIRST WRITINGS 84 YEARS AGO
On pages 14-15
