Serbia's 6,000 Dinar Payment: Who Gets 12,000 or 18,000
Applications for the 6,000 dinar payment open September 7 on the Treasury Administration portal, while heirs registered with the Share Fund get 12,000 or 18,000 dinars.
Six thousand dinars is landing in the accounts of every adult citizen of Serbia from September 22, but a chunk of them will not need to apply at all. The Treasury Administration opens its electronic portal on September 7, and that is the date when citizens should first check whether they already qualify for the payout through the Share Fund, before they even think about filing an application.
Applications run from September 7 to 21 at idp.trezor.gov.rs, payouts go out from September 22 to 25, and the money is transferred through the Postal Savings Bank. The same portal handles both the status check and the application itself, so citizens first enter their unique personal number and ID card registration number to see which category they fall into.
Who has to apply on their own?
Not everyone does. Anyone already registered with the Share Fund as a holder of free shares gets the 6,000 dinars automatically, with no clicks required. The same goes for pensioners and recipients of cash social assistance, who are enrolled by the state on its own initiative.
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Sinisa Mali explained the process in a video posted to his Instagram profile.
“Applications open on September 7 through the Treasury Administration website. First you need to check whether you’re registered with the Share Fund. If you are, you don’t need to apply for the payment, the 6,000 dinars will be transferred to your account automatically through the Share Fund,” Mali explained.
Everyone else, adults who are neither in the Share Fund nor in those two automatic groups, has to file an application on their own by September 21. There are four conditions: being of legal age, holding Serbian citizenship, having a registered residence in the country, and holding a valid ID card on the cutoff date.
“You need a valid ID card, residence in the Republic of Serbia, to be an adult, meaning you’ve turned 18, and to be a citizen of the Republic of Serbia. What’s important is that our pensioners and those receiving cash social assistance don’t need to apply, we will register them automatically,” Mali stressed.
Recipients of child allowance need to pay particular attention. On September 14 they automatically receive 25,000 dinars, but that payment does not cover the general 6,000 dinars. For that amount they have to apply separately through the same portal, within the same deadline as everyone else.
Heirs get double or triple the amount
Part of the Share Fund payouts is going instead to the accounts of people who have since died. Legislation from 2007 and 2008 granted the right to free shares and a cash payment only to those who reached adulthood by December 31, 2007. Since then, around 1.3 million people from that group have died, and their share of the money is now being claimed by their legal heirs, through a completed probate procedure and without any separate application.
When the inherited amount is added to a person’s own, some citizens end up with 12,000 or even 18,000 dinars instead of the base 6,000. Srpske Novine reported earlier this week that applications for the 6,000 dinar payment start September 7, and it is now clear that the Share Fund status check, available from the same date, determines whether an application needs to be filed at all.
The deadline for withdrawing the money depends on its source. Anyone who received the money from the budget, based on their own application, has a year to withdraw it from the dedicated account, after which the funds revert to the budget. For payouts through the Share Fund there is no deadline. Citizens without an open account get one free of charge, within five days of a request from the Ministry of Finance, and opening the account, transferring the funds, and withdrawing the cash all come at no cost.
Applying is free, and the data is entered exclusively at idp.trezor.gov.rs. The Treasury Administration is warning that fake links and messages imitating the portal are expected, so personal ID numbers and ID card numbers should not be entered anywhere else.
The 6,000 dinar payment is one of three measures through which the state is distributing more than 960 million euros from the budget in September, and it is granted independently of other forms of assistance, so combining it with other benefits is possible if the conditions are met.
