60,000 Algerians get war pensions from France
The issue of Algerians who served the French during the war is still a taboo in Algeria.France allocates war pensions to 60,000 people in Algeria who served it in two world wars and Algerians who served the French during the war, according to official sources from the war veterans’ department at the French embassy.
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/60000-Algerians...
The list includes widows, war veterans who served in the French army in the world war and armed conflicts in the 20th century as well as a large number of Algerians who served the French during the war and stayed in the country after the independence.
Earlier in 2010, France decided to raise war pensions for its African war veterans to the same level as those of their French comrades.
War veterans sent complaints to French authorities about their veteran card which is the most important document in the pension file. Some of them got their cards through e-mail.
On the eve of Algeria’s liberation revolution celebration, French authorities revealed for the first time the value of pensions allocated to war veterans and widows. It is estimated at 6.8 billion Algerian Dinars per year. War veteran card holders get 66,676 euros per year. Military retirement pension is estimated at 45,000 Algerian Dinars per month.
French compensation law stipulates that military retirement pensions are transferred to widows while war veterans’ widows can not benefit from the pension.
The “spoilt” category is the war disabled veterans who have earned pensions equal to their French comrades since January 2007.
Hundreds of war veterans go to the French embassy in Algiers to look for documents which prove that they had served France.
A war veteran told Echorouk he applied for the card, 14 months ago but he did not get it.
Another man came to the embassy to lodge a complaint on behalf of his father who served France in the world war against Germany and did not get the pension.
A large number of widows with their children come to the embassy to ask for the pension.
Fatma says she had sent many letters to the war veterans’ department since 1997 to ask for the pension of her husband who joined the French army in 1956 and killed a year after his enrollment. “I am sending those letters without the knowing of my relatives and neighbors,” she told Echorouk.
Algerians who served the French during the war do not reveal their pension value as it is a taboo issue in the country.
In 2011, France’s embassy in Algiers gave 5,000 new war veteran cards pending for a final decision on an unannounced number of requests submitted by widows
Earlier in 2010, France decided to raise war pensions for its African war veterans to the same level as those of their French comrades.
War veterans sent complaints to French authorities about their veteran card which is the most important document in the pension file. Some of them got their cards through e-mail.
On the eve of Algeria’s liberation revolution celebration, French authorities revealed for the first time the value of pensions allocated to war veterans and widows. It is estimated at 6.8 billion Algerian Dinars per year. War veteran card holders get 66,676 euros per year. Military retirement pension is estimated at 45,000 Algerian Dinars per month.
French compensation law stipulates that military retirement pensions are transferred to widows while war veterans’ widows can not benefit from the pension.
The “spoilt” category is the war disabled veterans who have earned pensions equal to their French comrades since January 2007.
Hundreds of war veterans go to the French embassy in Algiers to look for documents which prove that they had served France.
A war veteran told Echorouk he applied for the card, 14 months ago but he did not get it.
Another man came to the embassy to lodge a complaint on behalf of his father who served France in the world war against Germany and did not get the pension.
A large number of widows with their children come to the embassy to ask for the pension.
Fatma says she had sent many letters to the war veterans’ department since 1997 to ask for the pension of her husband who joined the French army in 1956 and killed a year after his enrollment. “I am sending those letters without the knowing of my relatives and neighbors,” she told Echorouk.
Algerians who served the French during the war do not reveal their pension value as it is a taboo issue in the country.
In 2011, France’s embassy in Algiers gave 5,000 new war veteran cards pending for a final decision on an unannounced number of requests submitted by widows
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/60000-Algerians...