Retirees below the poverty line whose salaries do not exceed $ 35
English - Saturday 12 December 2020 الساعة 04:18 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
Retirees from various government sectors, the economic catastrophe and the collapse of the currency burdened their backs, and those who were looted by the Iranian arm of their insurance institutions, which possessed billions that were deducted from the salaries of employees, and when the Houthi strikes the state nationalized all the rights of its employees, it did not pay the salaries, not even the accumulated security dues.
Retirees at the General Post building in Aden, "NewsYemen" met with them and asked them about their financial conditions, describing them as "unbearable", stressing that their pensions no longer meet the requirements of a decent life after the successive rises in the prices of goods and services finally after the Yemeni riyal's deterioration and its reach to the bottom and the difficulty of getting their needs with their cheap salaries.
Aisha al-Khawlani told NewYemen (a retired citizen whose pension does not exceed 30,000 riyals), wondering how she would meet her living costs, pointing out that her relatives provide her with some living aid indirectly through their visit, calling on the government to take care of their living conditions.
In detail, Mona Abdelrahim, a retired student from the educational sector, said that after 35 years in the teaching profession, her salary does not exceed fifty thousand, and this amount does not keep pace with her limited expenditures of food and drink, as there is a crazy increase in prices due to the collapse of the Yemeni riyal.
While the blind "Abu Muhammad" wondered about the way in which he could complete his life with dignity, despite his being paid a small salary of 33,000 riyals.
According to the United Nations Development Program, daily life is getting more difficult for millions of people trapped in the Yemeni crisis, indicating that the scope of food aid has expanded from one million people to 13 million people now. There are fears that the riyal will cross the 1,000 mark against the dollar if the collapse continues in this way, and there are no urgent rescue plans.
