In the first month of this year, the ratio of pensioners to employees in Croatia fell to just one to 1.28, which, analysts say, is the most unfavorable ratio of insured persons to pension beneficiaries since the Croatian Pension Insurance Institute began monitoring it.
We also learn that the number of those who regularly pay pension contributions in January of this year has decreased by more than 23 thousand. In January of this year, net pension contributions of only 312.6 million kuna were paid into the accounts of mandatory pension funds, which, according to Hanfa’s data, is the lowest monthly amount of net contributions paid in the last three years.
Such a significant drop in the number of insured persons and amounts in just one month in our mandatory pension funds is also interpreted as a direct consequence of the recession, or the alarming state of the labor market. Beneath the surface, analysts say, things look even worse as there are more and more people in the market who, although they are working, do not receive a salary nor are their contributions paid. In this regard, the head of a commercial bank recently revealed that among citizens who receive salaries through that bank, there were approximately four thousand fewer paid salaries in January of this year, but only a third of them did not receive a salary because they lost their jobs, while the others did not receive it even though they are working.
