Emigrants’ insurance payment

Maliqati says that he emigrated to Italy in 1991 and worked there for 12 years, until 2005, and then returned to Albania after some surgeries.

“I have worked in Italy for 15 years, with paid insurance. In 2010 I made a pension request in Tirana and they said that I needed to work for 20 years before receiving pension. Even if I worked in Italy until I was 80, I would never reach 20 years of work. They don’t recognize my years in Italy, and Italy doesn’t recognize my years there. Imagine, I have to live with 13.6000 ALL”, Maliqati declared.

Besides his many years in Italy, Maliqati was engaged even with the syndicates that protect the rights of emigrants in Italy and has followed the Italian laws closely.

“A law of 2012 says that emigrants enjoy the right of pension based on their years of work. The National Institution of Social Insurance writes: ‘Emigrants preserve all social insurance rights’. Here they told me to hire a private lawyer in Italy, but I don’t have the financial capabilities. On the other hand, it is impossible to resolve this issue with a private lawyer, because we know how long it takes for the procedures”, the former emigrant says.

Many other emigrants are in the same conditions of Maliqati. They are unclear from both states about what will happen with the insurances that they have paid during the years. While the crisis has affected several European countries, many of the emigrants are returning home, waiting for a solution about the insurance payment, since Italy doesn’t recognize their years of work in Albania, and Albania doesn’t recognize their years of work in the countries where Albanians have emigrated.

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