WWII resistance fighters deserve more
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- Date: 16.08.2017
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Participants of the WWII National Resistance Movement (NRM) and their surviving spouses will obtain higher monthly allowance payments. The SVK Government has approved the proposition put forward by Anton Hrnko, Jaroslav Paška and Tibor Bernaťák, MPs for the Slovak National Party (SNS), and Dušan Čaplovič, MP for Smer-SD, to provide the NRM participants and their surviving spouses with higher allowance payments. The bill still needs to be approved by the SVK Parliament.
The aim of the MPs’ proposition is to amend the Act on Provision of Allowance Payments to Participants of the National Resistance Movement and their Surviving Spouses. The increase in the allowance will be in two phases. The first phase will come into effect on 1 November 2017, with the allowance payable to the direct NRM participants rising to 40 EUR/month. The second phase will take effect on 1 January 2019, with the allowance reaching 70 EUR/month. Similarly, the allowance payable to the surviving spouses of the NRM participants is expected to increase to 20 EUR/month in the first phase and to 35 EUR/month in the second phase.
“That we live in a free country today can be credited to the people to whom the increase applies. Therefore, I consider it highly important to never forget their acts of heroism and to pay back the debt we have towards them at least in this way,” said Minister of Defence Peter Gajdoš.
The increase in the allowance applies to all those who, directly – with weapons in their hands or indirectly – by helping partisans, participated in the battles of WWII across the territory of the former Czechoslovak Republic and abroad, as well as to their surviving spouses.
The aim of the MPs’ proposition is to amend the Act on Provision of Allowance Payments to Participants of the National Resistance Movement and their Surviving Spouses. The increase in the allowance will be in two phases. The first phase will come into effect on 1 November 2017, with the allowance payable to the direct NRM participants rising to 40 EUR/month. The second phase will take effect on 1 January 2019, with the allowance reaching 70 EUR/month. Similarly, the allowance payable to the surviving spouses of the NRM participants is expected to increase to 20 EUR/month in the first phase and to 35 EUR/month in the second phase.
“That we live in a free country today can be credited to the people to whom the increase applies. Therefore, I consider it highly important to never forget their acts of heroism and to pay back the debt we have towards them at least in this way,” said Minister of Defence Peter Gajdoš.
The increase in the allowance applies to all those who, directly – with weapons in their hands or indirectly – by helping partisans, participated in the battles of WWII across the territory of the former Czechoslovak Republic and abroad, as well as to their surviving spouses.
