Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5673/sip.59.3.8
On the Future of Pensioners in Post-Pandemic Croatia: Can Consumer Bankruptcy Be One of the Solution?
Dejan Bodul
; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law, Chair of Civil Procedure Law, Croatia
Marko Tomljanović
orcid.org/0000-0003-0394-7518
; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Economics, Department of International Economics, Croatia
Abstract
System of social protection and security represent basis of social (welfare) state. In the operational-
methodological context, it is about social security costs. One of the largest items refers
to pensions, as the (largest) component of total expenditures for social benefits in all countries
of the European Union, including the Republic of Croatia. The intention of this paper is not
to enter into the analysis of the existing pension system, but to state that the pressure of pension
payments due to the deteriorating ratio of employees and retirees has not bypassed the
Republic of Croatia, which has resulted in new challenges and issues to be addressed. One
of the questions, that is the main subject of the paper, is whether consumer bankruptcy as a
measure with a social feature can compensate for the negative consequences of a larger number
of pensioners and lower pensions in the situation that the elderly need to initiate it.
Keywords
insured persons entitled to a pension; consumer-bankruptcy reason; consumer bankruptcy proceedings; discrimination
Hrčak ID:
271650
URI
Publication date:
31.1.2022.
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