The Kosovo Agency of Statistics (KAS) has released the Social Welfare Statistic for the month of August 2022.

This publication provides data on the number of beneficiaries of the social assistance scheme, the basic age pension scheme, age-contribution-payer pension, pension scheme for persons with special needs / disabilities, the pension scheme for paraplegic and tetraplegic, the scheme for material support for families with children with permanent special needs,  family pension scheme, disability pension scheme, pension scheme for families of martyrs, war invalids and war veterans, “Trepca” pension scheme, pension scheme for the Kosovo Protection Corps, pension scheme of the Kosovo Security Forces, the compensation scheme for blind persons, data on the number of abandoned children, etc.

According to the results of this publication, it results that in the month of August 2022 from the social assistance scheme have benefited 24 627 families with a total of 97 124 members; and 2 784 families have benefited from the scheme for material support for families with children with special needs.

Meanwhile the basic age pension scheme has 125 515 beneficiaries; age pension contribution scheme has 45 462 beneficiaries; the family pension scheme has 3 315 beneficiaries; the scheme for disability pensions has 61 beneficiaries; the Trepça pension scheme has 1 820 beneficiaries; the Kosovo Protection Corps pension scheme has 1 265 beneficiaries; the pension scheme for the Kosovo Security Force has 673 beneficiaries; the compensation scheme for blind persons has 1 848 beneficiaries; the pension scheme for persons with special needs has 19 034 beneficiaries; the pension scheme for paraplegic and tetraplegic persons has 2 497 beneficiaries; the scheme for families of martyrs and war invalids has 13 152 beneficiaries and the scheme for war veterans has 36 761 beneficiaries.

While during the month of August 2022, 1 child was abandoned.

For more information about "Social Welfare Statistics, August 2022", visit: http://ask.rks-gov.net/sq/agjencia-e-statistikave-te-kosoves/sociale/shendetesia-dhe-mireqenia-sociale