The state administration has a fixation on both the living and the dead citizens of Croatia. Six months ago, I wrote that Ante Vujčić, or Ante Vjekoslav Vujčić, needs to come to the registrar and declare which name he wishes to use.
But he could not come because he died four years ago, and his son cannot sort out the inheritance papers due to inconsistent documents. ‘The state wants my father to rise from the grave and prove that he lived,’ lamented the would-be heir.
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In another case, HZMO paid a deceased woman a pension of a meager 1500 kuna for over 13 years, causing the account to grow to an impressive 243 thousand kuna. While the state gives to someone in the ‘other world,’ it takes from another.
Therefore, the state has enforced collection on a woman who died eight years ago. A few years ago, a minor from Zagorje received three enforcement proposals from three notaries due to a debt to Zagrebački holding incurred by a person with the same name and surname in Zagreb, who died eight years ago.
In the vastness of bureaucratic absurdities, the latest call from the Ministry of Defense for an 18-year-old who died as a stillborn baby to register in military records stands out for its dramatic nature…
