"About 150,000 Kosovo residents live on 45 cents"
Seven percent of the Kosovo population receives EUR 0.45 each day in social benefits, a new survey has shown.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Wednesday, February 24, 2010
This, according to an Albanian language newspaper report, makes this group worse off than the "extremely poor", who live on EUR 0.93 per day.
Daily Koha Ditore gives these statistics from the Institute for Social Policies, which states that thousands of people "dream of at least living on the extreme poverty lines".
The report states that about 150,000 Kosovo residents live off EUR 0.45 per day or EUR 14 a month, and that they demand that the government double this aid so that they can match that received by those living in the category of "extreme poverty".
Based on the report, there are more than 34,000 families in Kosovo that live on social benefits.
Six percent of the surveyed families receiving aid claim that the money they receive cannot even pay for necessary medicine.
Twenty percent of those surveyed stated that the assistance they receive covers only the most basic expenses for about ten days each month, while 14 percent stated that they "have no idea how to do the math in order to give an answer".
Asked how much money they would need for one month, 52 percent stated that they would need in between EUR 120 and 130, 31 percent said between EUR 150 and 170, and 17 percent stated that they needed about EUR 250.
