Prema jugoslavenskom penzionom sistemu, manje od polovine stanovništva koje je ispunjavalo uslove za penzionisanje dobivalo je penzije, a mnogi Kosovari spriječeni su u učešću u sistemu nakon 1989, kad je režim jugoslavenskog predsjednika Slobodana Miloševića otpočeo proces ukidanja kosovske autonomije i postavio ga pod upravu Srbije.
Under the Yugoslav pension system, less than a half of the population qualified for retirement received pension benefits, and many Kosovars were prevented from participating in the system after 1989, when Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's regime began the process of abolishing Kosovo's autonomy and placing it under Serbian rule.