6,000 Dinars: Serbian Shareholders Get No Deadline
Serbia's Finance Ministry and Central Registry clarified the 6,000 dinar payout deadlines: shareholders have none, others get a year, heirs collect 12,000 or 18,000 dinars at Postal Savings Bank.
The Central Securities Registry, Depot and Clearing House paid out 28,933,050,000 dinars on September 22 to 4,822,175 shareholders of the Shareholder Fund, part of the one-time 6,000 dinar aid measure now landing in accounts across Serbia. The Central Registry confirmed the payout in a statement, saying the money comes from the Shareholder Fund under a government decision to transfer the cash compensation to holders of free-share rights.
The Finance Ministry has also spelled out the withdrawal deadlines, which differ depending on where the money comes from. For shareholders, there is none:
If the money is paid to citizens from the Shareholder Fund, there is no deadline for withdrawing it.
The rule is different for people who applied through the Treasury Administration portal, meaning citizens without shareholder status: they have one year from the date of payment to withdraw the funds. The Central Registry adds that the dedicated accounts opened for that group will close on September 1, 2027, while shareholder accounts carry no time limit at all.
Sources disagree on the exact number of payments made in the first wave, on September 22. The Central Registry cites 4,822,175 shareholders and the 28.9 billion dinars total mentioned above. The Mondo portal, citing a statement from the Postal Savings Bank, gives a different breakdown for the same day: 4,313,062 citizens paid through the Shareholder Fund compensation and roughly 574,481 citizens covered by the first wave of the budget payout, for close to 4.9 million payments combined.
Separate rules apply to the heirs of deceased owners of free shares. They do not apply through the portal. Instead, the money, either 12,000 or 18,000 dinars depending on the number of inherited rights, can only be withdrawn at branches of the Postal Savings Bank, not at post office counters. Heirs need a valid ID card and a final inheritance ruling that explicitly states both the right to the cash compensation and the right to the share transfer; if the ruling does not include that, the heir must first obtain a supplementary probate ruling.
Speaking from New York to RTS, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic tied the payout to three other measures rolled out this September:
All the big things we promised people for September, from the vouchers, the cut in prescription drug prices, which I think has been a huge success, to the payments for pensioners, the most socially vulnerable and war veterans ranging from 10,000 to 35,000 dinars, and this measure with the 6,000 dinars, all four have been delivered on time, without delay, exactly on the days we said they would.
The payout has moved through several stages so far. Applications through the Treasury Administration portal were filed by 1,696,000 citizens, while nearly three million people checked their status in the Shareholder Fund without filing one. Srpske Novine reported yesterday on the pace of these transfers, when about 5.4 million transactions were logged on citizens’ accounts in a single day. Citizens without a bank account automatically get a dedicated account opened at the Postal Savings Bank, which has committed 241 branches, 1,533 post offices, 627 bank ATMs and 241 postal ATMs to the payout, 2,642 locations in total.
