6,000 Dinars: 5.4 Million Payments Go Out Today
Serbia began paying out the one-time 6,000-dinar aid today. Finance Minister Sinisa Mali announced about 5.4 million payments, most through Postal Savings Bank.
Payout of the one-time 6,000-dinar cash aid officially began today, September 22, after applications on the Treasury Administration portal closed last night at midnight. Acting Finance Minister Sinisa Mali said around 5.4 million payments would be made during the day, nearly 4.9 million of them through Postal Savings Bank.
“In total, today we expect about 5.4 million payments, of which 4.9 million will be through Postal Savings Bank,” Mali said.
About 7.1 million people are entitled to the 6,000-dinar payment in total. That figure also includes deceased rights holders from the Shareholding Fund, whose money, under the law, goes to their heirs.
“In total, about 4.8 million people have acquired the status of rights holder under the Shareholding Fund, and that money will be paid out today. I say again, I want to stress that this number also includes people who have passed away, so that money will go to their legal heirs,” Mali said, according to a statement from the Ministry of Finance.
Money also goes out today to pensioners, recipients of cash social assistance, people with disabilities on record with the Pension and Disability Insurance Fund, and people held in penal institutions, even though none of them had to apply. According to Kurir, they get the funds the same way as portal applicants: exclusively through Postal Savings Bank, which automatically and free of charge opened a dedicated account for anyone who did not already have one. Shareholding Fund rights holders are the exception: their money does not have to go through Postal Savings Bank, and can instead land in the account they had already opened to receive dividends from free shares.
The number of people who applied through the Treasury portal varies from source to source. Citing B92, Mali put the figure at 1,748,844 registered citizens and said payments for them would begin tomorrow, September 23, running through Friday, September 25.
“A total of 1,748,844 citizens applied for the 6,000-dinar cash support on the Treasury Administration portal, and we are starting those payments tomorrow. By September 25 we will have made about 7.1 million payments,” Mali said.
Kurir reports that more than 1,690,000 citizens successfully applied through the portal, while N1 cites a Ministry of Finance figure of more than 1.65 million registered applicants. Kurir also notes that during the application window, the Shareholding Fund logged 2,728,000 inquiries from citizens checking their status.
Most of the money for this payout comes from the Shareholding Fund, with the state budget adding roughly 150 million euros, or about 18 billion dinars.
A valid ID card is required to collect the money at a counter. Kurir reports that portal applicants have one year to collect their funds, while Shareholding Fund rights holders face no deadline. Heirs of deceased rights holders cannot collect the money at post office counters at all. They can only do so at a Postal Savings Bank branch, with an ID card and a final inheritance ruling that explicitly states the right to the cash benefit.
This is the second round of state aid in under ten days. On September 14, the government paid pensioners a one-time benefit of 20,000 to 35,000 dinars, depending on pension size, along with recipients of child allowance, social assistance and veteran’s allowance. Srpske Novine previously reported on applications for the current payout in “Mali: 1,696,220 Applications for 6,000 Dinars, Payouts From Tuesday.”
