More than 15% of Bulgarians of retirement age are employed on the labor market, according to the statistics of the National Social Security Institute. For a year, the number of working pensioners increased by 47,000 and they are now over 340,000. The data also show that 104,000 people with disabilities receive a salary in addition to their pensions.
At the moment, the minimum pension for length of service and age is 238.77 euros a month; the social pension for old age is 126.29 euros, for disability with reduced working capacity from 71 to 90% - 164.12 euros.
Bulgaria sending troops to Ukraine is out of the question , caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev said at the beginning of his hearing in parliament. Glavchev was briefing MPs on Bulgaria's position at the upcoming NATO summit in Washington. In his..
GERB leader Boyko Borissov said that his party would no longer take part in negotiations and that the next step would be elections. Speaking on the sidelines of Parliament, Borissov pointed out that after the rejection of GERB's government..
Upon entering Parliament, Lena Borislavova of the PP-DB commented on Delyan Peevski's indication that he would expel the rogue DPS MPs as his move to make the DPS a third political force. Yesterday, 30 DPS deputies supported the GERB-SDS proposal for a..
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Today, the National Assembly will vote on the new government proposed by GERB-SDS. On Monday, upon receiving the first exploratory mandate, the largest..
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