Text file: 11108.txt
author: skinisha
downvotes: 32
end consideration date: 2020-04-21
id: '11108'
number comments: 30
number views: 1549
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response by the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities\n\
  In view of the consequences of the COVID-19 epidemic, the Act on Intervention Measures\
  \ to contain the COVID-19 epidemic and mitigate its consequences for citizens and\
  \ the economy has laid down measures to prevent or mitigate, for a limited period\
  \ of time, the negative consequences of the COVID-19 virus for citizens and the\
  \ economy, in the areas of work and payment of social security contributions, health\
  \ care and health insurance, and social protection, public entitlements and the\
  \ exercise of parental care rights, taxation, public finance, public sector wages\
  \ and salaries and direct and indirect majority state-owned companies, agriculture,\
  \ forestry and food, water management, culture, science and research, anti-money\
  \ laundering and countering the financing of terrorism, insurance and the financial\
  \ instruments market, public procurement, contractual penalties, enforcement and\
  \ personal bankruptcy, and the provision of public services.\nIn addition to full-time\
  \ students, beneficiaries of social assistance or protection allowance under the\
  \ law regulating social security benefits for the month of April 2020 who are not\
  \ entitled to the one-off solidarity allowance for pensioners are also beneficiaries\
  \ of the one-off solidarity allowance for vulnerable groups of \u20AC150.\nWith\
  \ regard to the proposal, we would like to clarify that the Ministry of Labour,\
  \ Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities has provided guidance to social\
  \ work centres in the procedures for the recognition of exceptional cash social\
  \ assistance, when it is necessary to establish social hardship on an individual\
  \ basis. Social work centres have discretionary powers when deciding on exceptional\
  \ cash social assistance, which must be exercised in a prudent, life-oriented manner\
  \ and, above all, taking into account the circumstances and situations in which\
  \ individuals or families unexpectedly find themselves. This means that circumstances\
  \ which would not normally constitute grounds for granting exceptional financial\
  \ social assistance may also be taken into account in the decision-making process,\
  \ in cases of exceptional circumstances due to force majeure (COVID -19).\nAccordingly,\
  \ persons in financial difficulty during the crisis may claim public benefits by\
  \ applying for emergency social assistance at the competent social work centre.\
  \ The application can be submitted by e-mail without a qualified digital certificate,\
  \ by ordinary mail or in the mailbox of the social work centres."
response date: 2020-05-12
response due date: null
sent date: 2020-03-22
title: Coronavirus pensioners' allowance
upvotes: 49
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/11108
