Pensioners' Power Bills Cut by 1,000 Dinars From October
The 1,000 dinar monthly reduction runs from October 2026 to March 2027, and pensioners with the lowest incomes receive it without filing an application.
Pensioners whose pension does not exceed 31,092.11 dinars and whose electricity meter is registered in their own name will pay 1,000 dinars less on their bill every month from October 2026 to March 2027. They do not have to apply: local governments start the procedure for granting energy-vulnerable customer status on their own initiative.
The measure was presented on September 26 at a Pension and Disability Insurance Fund event in Arandjelovac by the caretaker Minister of Mining and Energy, Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic. In a post on Instagram she said the state is continuing its support for the most vulnerable pensioners with the lowest pensions this year as well. She said: “Our duty is to stand by them today.”
The meter requirement has a practical consequence. A pensioner whose meter is registered to a spouse or another household member does not meet the condition, regardless of the size of the pension.
How much is the electricity bill reduction?
The relief is 1,000 dinars for each of the six months of the heating season, October through March, for a total of up to 6,000 dinars. The minister said that once other benefits are added, the bill during the heating season falls by up to about 1,500 dinars a month.
The red zone threshold does not change for these customers either. The minister explained it this way:
“Without additional entry into the red zone: the red zone threshold stays at 1,600 kWh and 5 percent discount for regular payment of electricity bills, like all regular payers have.”
A pensioner who pays the bill on time therefore keeps the 5 percent discount and gets another 1,000 dinars off.
Who has to apply to the local government themselves?
Here the sources disagree. Dnevnik, citing a statement from the Ministry of Mining and Energy, reports that the same relief is available to veterans, war and peacetime military invalids, civilian war invalids and recipients of family disability benefits. According to Dnevnik and Ozon, they must apply to their local government and submit their latest electricity bill, and in their case too the meter must be registered in their own name. Ozon adds that these applications can be submitted throughout the year.
The portal 24sedam mentions veterans and war and military invalids in connection with the same relief of 1,000 dinars a month, but ties the application requirement to other vulnerable households: recipients of social assistance, child allowance and increased financial support. For veterans and invalids, that portal does not say they have to file an application.
For now, only for pensioners with up to 31,092.11 dinars do all sources describe the same procedure: no application, handled on the local government’s own initiative. For veterans and invalids the sources do not agree, so an application to the local government is the only route to the relief that any of them names.
