There is something deeply wrong with this place.

2026-06-24 14:45:00, Opinione Altin Joka

Today my sister received her monthly pension, a disability pension, I don't know what it's called. She was tired and walked 2 km in the heat to get it, it was impossible and when it arrived I cried... she had received 115 thousand lek.

My sister suffered a serious complication after birth, on the brain... She survived with difficulty, but since that day she has never had the opportunity to live normally or work.

During Berisha's time, some 17 years ago, he received 96 thousand old lek.

Today, after 17 years, her pension is 115 thousand lek per month... a few months ago it was 130 thousand, but the state, the municipality I think takes too much and reduced it to 115 thousand lek per month... 115 thousand lek.

An amount that is not even enough for water and medicine, not for a dignified human being... not for someone who needs doctors, tests, medicine, and constant care.

But the problem is not just the ridiculous pension, the problem is the philosophy of a state that sees people in need as a burden and not as citizens, as guinea pigs...as a shame.

Every two years he calls her to prove that she is still sick, an ignorance that does not even happen in developed countries... As if her illness would disappear with a signature in the office. As if the suffering were not enough, she also has to go through the torture of bureaucracy, counters, commissions, doctors, physicians, the municipality and endless documents for 115 thousand lek per month and sometimes she has to give a tip.

Instead of making life easier for the most vulnerable people, the state is making it even more difficult...and not only for her, but especially for my mother, who has been struggling and struggling for 40 years.

Instead of aid going to the citizen, the citizen wanders after aid with contempt, arrogance, and insults...

Instead of dignity, there is humiliation.

Then we hear propaganda about successes, reforms and prosperity. But the true measure of a state is not speeches or facades. The measure is the way the sick, the disabled, the pensioners and the people who have no voice but who suffer more than anyone else are treated.

When a person who cannot work is forced to survive on 115 thousand lek per month, while millions and billions are wasted without accounting, the problem is no longer economic.

The problem is moral, it is inhuman.

Because a state that does not protect the weakest has failed in its most fundamental duty.

And this is the truth that no propaganda can hide.

The Municipality of Tirana, the insurance institute, the doctors' legal commissions, the government, social care, etc. are a disgrace as if it were the only case.

How can you tell my mother and sister that you're getting too much money and we need to lower it a little?

But how can your mouth be occupied and your mind be occupied?

Anyone who knows my sister knows how painful it is how she takes care of everyone, remembers everyone, wishes everyone a happy birthday, gives everything she has for everyone...

And in the end, she is not looking for luxury. She is not looking for privileges. We are not looking for mercy, nor free tickets, nor help, nor many other things that are given to people in the West...

He is only asking for something that in a normal state is called DIGNITY and RESPECT.

The face of my country is torn...and I am ashamed of it.../ CNA