Three September Payout Dates: Child Benefit and 6,000 Dinars
Serbia's Ministry of Labor pays August social benefits on September 19, maternity allowances on September 21, and one time payments of 6,000 dinars start Tuesday, September 22.
Three dates carry September’s payments of social benefits and one time aid to citizens: Saturday, September 19, Monday, September 21, and Tuesday, September 22. The schedule was published by the Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs on its “Social Benefits” page, and the application for the one time 6,000 dinars closes on exactly the second of those three dates.
What arrives on September 19 and 21
On Saturday, September 19, August benefits are paid out: cash social assistance, special cash allowance, the allowance for assistance and care by another person, compensation for maintaining beneficiaries in foster family care, basic veteran and disability rights, child benefit, and parental allowance.
Two days later, on September 21, it is the turn of wage compensation for maternity leave, child care leave and special child care leave, along with other benefits tied to a child’s birth, also covering August.
The 6,000 dinar application deadline expires the same day maternity pay arrives
Applications for the one time aid of 6,000 dinars run through Monday, September 21, on the Treasury Administration’s portal, and payment begins Tuesday, September 22. The finance minister had previously announced the money would arrive in a window from September 22 to 25, through Banka Postanska stedionica, the Postal Savings Bank.
Pensioners, recipients of cash social assistance, and citizens enrolled in the Share Fund receive the money automatically, without applying. All other adult Serbian citizens residing in the country with a valid ID card must apply themselves, providing their personal identification number (JMBG) and ID card number.
The payment goes to a dedicated account at the Postal Savings Bank, not to an account the citizen already holds at another bank. Anyone without an account there must collect the money in person at a Postal Savings Bank branch or the nearest post office, with a valid ID card. The deadline to withdraw the funds is one year from the payment date.
Correction: 877,525 registered, not “over a million”
Applications opened on September 7, and the Treasury Administration logged 83,000 requests on the first night. On September 8, Assistant Finance Minister Ognjen Popovic announced that 877,525 citizens had registered by that point, while more than 1.3 million people had used the Treasury Administration’s portal only to check whether they qualified for the payment. That is fewer than a million applicants, not more, as some reporting suggested in the meantime. The figure of 1.65 million registered was recorded only in mid month, around September 15.
Where the money comes from
The payment is funded by the budget rebalance the Serbian government adopted earlier this summer: 71 billion dinars, roughly 605 million euros, is earmarked for pensioners, recipients of social assistance and allowances, and all adult citizens. Most of that amount comes from the Share Fund, while an additional 18 billion dinars, roughly 153 million euros, is being topped up from the budget.
