Minimum guaranteed pension

As a Croatian veteran, you may be entitled to a minimum guaranteed pension under certain requirements

As a Croatian veteran, you may be entitled to the minimum guaranteed pension, the basis of which amounts to 45 percent of the average net salary for 2016 339.54 EUR per month, under the following requirements:

• if you spent 100 days in the combat sector
• if the amount of an old-age pension, old-age pension for a long-term insured person, early retirement old-age pension or disability pension for which you meet the requirements is lower than the amount of the minimum guaranteed pension or you have reached the age for old-age pension and have not met the requirements for another pension. 

As a member of the family of a deceased Croatian veteran, you may be entitled to the minimum guaranteed pension if:

• you meet the requirements for a survivor’s pension under the Act on Croatian Homeland War Veterans and their Family Members, but that pension would be lower than the minimum guaranteed pension and
• the Croatian veteran on whom your basing your claim has spent 100 days in the combat sector.

On 1 March 2018, a provision came into force according to which all Croatian veterans who have already qualified for the minimum guaranteed pension under previous regulations or are yet to exercise the right to the minimum guaranteed pension will also be entitled to the minimum guaranteed pension supplement depending on the duration of their participation in defence of the sovereignty of the Republic of Croatia in the combat sector amounting to 0.07 EUR per day of participation in the combat sector. With regard to the beneficiaries who have already exercised the right to the minimum guaranteed pension, the Croatian Pension Insurance Institute already calculated the new amount of their minimum guaranteed pension ex officio when calculating the pension for March 2018, therefore, no special application was required.