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.
Prema jugoslovenskom penzionom sistemu, manje od polovine stanovništva koje je steklo uslove za penziju primalo je penzijske beneficije, a mnogi Kosovari nisu mogli da učestvuju u tom sistemu nakon 1989, kada je režim tadašnjeg predsednika Slobodana Miloševića počeo proces ukidanja autonomije Kosova i njegovog stavljanja pod srpsku vlast.