The Slovenian Pensioners' Association (ZDUS) took advantage of today's World Elder Abuse Awareness day to call attention to extremely low pensions of 60,000 of women, which according to Mateja Kožuh Novak don’t allow them "neither to live, nor to die."

Mateja Kožuh Novak explained that the most existentially threatened old women are retired farmers and factory workers, who had been thrown from factories during the last 20 years, or had to retire early due to disability. "We are all full of praise for our mothers. They are being constantly complemented, and frequently mentioned, but nobody considers how difficult it is for them to survive with low pensions" she emphasized.

"I am appealing to the state to do something for the poorest of the poor," the president of the association Mateja Kožuh Novak said at the occasion of the World Elder Abuse Awareness day. "We are experiencing violence of the state against its citizens," she stressed, and warned that it is rather difficult to notice these retired women with very low pensions, as they keep quiet. "They believe nobody hears them, and therefore they don't complain," said the president of ZDUS.