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The new law on working years, here are the periods that are automatically recognized! Instructions for those who have not received a pension yet, the documents that are needed
2025-08-08 09:38:19 / EKONOMI&SOCIALE
After many years of waiting and uncertainty, an opportunity has finally been created for thousands of citizens who worked during the communist period but were unable to benefit from the right to a pension.
The Social Security Institute has started implementing the new law 7/2025, in which years of work completed before 1991 will be automatically recognized as insurance periods, without the need for citizens to face courts, lawsuits or bureaucratic obstacles that have often burdened them. This change directly affects thousands of citizens who have contributed to the state economy, agricultural cooperatives or socialist enterprises of that time, but who, due to lack of documentation or difficult procedures, have remained outside the fair pension benefit scheme.
For the first time, the application for this recognition can be made directly at the Social Security office of the place of residence, where each citizen is assisted in completing the application and submitting a simplified set of documents.
The application form is completed in the office, with the assistance of the ISSH specialist, and includes the applicant's personal data, as well as a self-declaration that he or she has not been convicted by court decision during the claimed period of work.
What is of fundamental importance in this process is the place of residence that the citizen had during the relevant years of work – if he/she lived in a village, he/she can benefit from recognition for work in a cooperative; if he/she lived in a city, he/she benefits from years of work in state-owned enterprises.
This information is verified through civil status records and it is no longer the citizen's duty to prove every detail with documents that are impossible to obtain after so many years. For those who have a part of their work record or any remaining certificates from old companies, these serve as support, but are no longer necessary to benefit.
Even in their absence, insurance institutions carry out their own searches and verifications in archives or in municipalities. Every element that remained pending until now, every legal obstacle that required a lawyer or a court, has now been replaced with a simplified procedure accessible to all. This initiative is a belated but necessary step towards equality and appreciation of the contribution of those who kept the economy afloat in difficult decades.
Now, retirement is no longer a privilege of those who have saved their papers, but a right of those who have really worked. For many citizens who today live on minimal or no pension, this is a new window of hope.
1. Identification document: Identity card or valid passport.
2. Proof of historical residence: This document is obtained from the civil registry office and shows that during the relevant years (e.g., 1975-1990) you resided in a village (if you worked in a cooperative) or city (if you worked in a state-owned enterprise). If no proof of that time is available, a notarized statement from relatives or witnesses can also be used.
3. Work book or work certificates (if any): Even if you only have fragmented parts of it. In the absence of it, the ISSH verifies it itself, based on data from former State Enterprises, Municipalities or Archives.
4. Personal declaration that you have not been convicted by court decision: This declaration is made in writing at the ISSH office, along with the form.
5. In certain cases, confirmation that the application is in judicial or administrative proceedings (if you are seeking a review of a previous decision).
A woman, born in 1953, worked in the agricultural cooperative of Berat from 1971 to 1989. She only had a partial work certificate, but could not receive a full pension. Today, with the new law, she applies to the Social Security Institute with: an identity card, a certificate from the civil status that she lived in the village in the years 1971–1989, a declaration that she has not been convicted and a partial work certificate. Within 45 days, she benefits from the recognition of 18 years as an insurance period and a pension supplement.
-There is no application fee, it is free.
-Review time: 30–60 days usually, depending on verifications.
-If the request is accepted, the pension is calculated from the date the application is submitted.
-No trial is required, even if it was previously requested by lawsuit.
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