Serbia's 6,000 Dinar Application Opens: Two Fields, One Trap

Serbia’s Treasury Administration portal for the one time payment of 6,000 dinars opened at midnight, on the night between Sunday and Monday. The address is idp.trezor.gov.rs, applications run until midnight on September 21, and the whole procedure comes down to two pieces of data and a handful of clicks. This guide follows the order people will actually work in, and points to the spot where an application most easily fails.

Check First, Apply Second

The portal’s home page carries a red button reading “Check whether you will automatically receive money from the Share Fund”. That is step one, and it takes a single piece of data, the personal identification number. Anyone the check confirms as a rights holder does nothing further: the money goes to the account they registered for their free shares.

Only those the check shows to lack that status submit an application.

The Trap That Sinks an Application

The application form has exactly two fields, personal identification number and ID card number, plus a button that submits the request. Next to the ID card field sits a note many people will not read, and it decides whether the application goes through:

“If your ID card has eight (8) digits, please enter the leading zero”

Newer Serbian ID cards carry a nine digit registration number, while older ones have eight. Anyone who types such a number without the zero in front gets a rejection for invalid data, even though they copied the number exactly as printed on the card.

The number in question is the document’s registration number, not the personal identification number and not anything read off the chip. On Serbian ID cards it appears on the front, above or beside the photograph, depending on the issue.

Who Never Has to Open the Portal

The portal itself carries a notice that settles the question for the two largest groups:

“Pensioners and recipients of monetary social assistance do not submit an application through the portal, but will be paid automatically at Banka Postanska stedionica.”

A second notice covers holders of free share rights:

“Holders of the right to free shares and monetary compensation from the Share Fund do not need to apply, the money will be paid into the account registered for the free share payment.”

There is a distinction here that most coverage loses. Rights holders receive the money in the account they registered earlier for free shares, not necessarily at Postanska stedionica. Anyone who has left that account unused for years has good reason to confirm it is still open.

People held in institutions for the enforcement of criminal sanctions also do not apply, as the state collects their data through official channels.

What the Screen Says When It Works, and When It Fails

The portal answers immediately after a request is sent. When the application is accepted, it reports that the submission has been recorded and directs the applicant to verify the entered data on the status check page. When the data is wrong, the message is blunt: the application is rejected and must be submitted again with correct details.

A third message states that a valid application with the same details has already been filed. That means the job is done and does not need repeating, since a duplicate application does not produce a duplicate payment.

Write down the application number. A successful submission returns an eight digit identifier, and it is the only way to track the case later if the ID card details stop matching in the meantime. A phone photo of the screen is enough.

When the Money Arrives, and What If You Have No Account

Payment comes in two waves. Share Fund rights holders receive the money on September 22, and those who applied through the portal between September 23 and 25. Banka Postanska stedionica handles the payouts.

Anyone without a bank account does not need to open one. Dedicated accounts are opened for those citizens at Postanska stedionica, and opening the account, the transfer and the cash withdrawal carry no fees.

The deadline for collecting the money depends on its source. Money paid on the basis of an individual application must be withdrawn within one year, after which the funds return to the budget. Payments through the Share Fund carry no such limit.

A Deadline Nobody Announced

The portal’s own code holds the message it will display once applications close, and it carries a date that has not appeared in any announcement: applications end at midnight on September 21, while status checks and complaints remain available until September 7, 2027.

That means nobody who misses the application deadline is left without a way to find out what happened to their case, and that complaints have a full year rather than a few days after payout. The same route is open to anyone whose payment arrives incorrectly or fails to arrive at all.

Fake Sites Are Already Expected

The Treasury Administration and the Ministry of Finance warn that pages and messages imitating the portal will appear. The defence is simple and requires no expertise: type the address into the browser by hand, and never leave a personal identification number or ID card number anywhere other than idp.trezor.gov.rs.

No state service asks for a payment card number, an online banking password or a code sent by message in connection with this payout. Anyone who does is not working for the state.

Readers who want to work out which category they fall into, and whether they are owed more than the basic 6,000 dinars, can find the difference between an individual and an inherited entitlement in our earlier piece on the 12,000 and 18,000 dinar amounts.