Text file: 11294.txt
author: mojca25
downvotes: 4
end consideration date: 2020-04-28
id: '11294'
number comments: 5
number views: 561
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response by the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities\n\
  If you are unemployed and no longer have unemployment benefit, you can claim your\
  \ rights from the competent social work centre. The rights that can be claimed by\
  \ a single person are the right to social assistance, the right to a protection\
  \ allowance, the right to emergency social assistance, the right to cover the contribution\
  \ to compulsory health insurance, the right to cover the difference up to the full\
  \ cost of health services and the right to a rent subsidy.  If you have a family,\
  \ you may also be entitled to child benefit, a state grant, a subsidy for kindergarten\
  \ fees, and a subsidy for breakfast and lunch for your child.\nThe Law on the Claiming\
  \ of Public Entitlements provides for a uniform way of determining the material\
  \ situation of beneficiaries of public entitlements. Entitlements are enforced according\
  \ to the principles of uniformity, fair distribution of public funds, economy, targeting\
  \ of benefits and respect for human dignity. A public entitlement shall be granted\
  \ where a person's income does not reach the income limit laid down by law for a\
  \ particular public entitlement and where the other conditions laid down by the\
  \ regulations governing the entitlement are also met. The applicant and the members\
  \ of his/her family, their income and assets shall be taken into account in determining\
  \ the material situation.\nThe Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal\
  \ Opportunities has instructed social work centres to adopt a flexible interpretation\
  \ of the existing legal provisions during the period of emergency measures, i.e.\
  \ to take into account the legal provisions, in particular the culpable grounds\
  \ (registration in the register of unemployed persons and jobseekers), in a way\
  \ that is relevant to life, reasonable and appropriate to the current situation\
  \ when determining the conditions for the granting of rights from public funds.\
  \ Therefore, during the period in which the emergency measures are in force, the\
  \ fact that a person is not, or has not yet been, entered in the register of unemployed\
  \ persons is not to be regarded as a culpable reason for the exercise of rights.\n\
  In order to facilitate the claiming of benefits, applications may be submitted electronically\
  \ without a secure electronic signature, which is otherwise a standard and formal\
  \ requirement. The authority will establish or verify the identity of the applicant\
  \ by other means, for example by requesting the client to provide an officially\
  \ assigned identification number (EMN, DS).\nThis is how customers can make an application:\n\
  \ via e-administration without a qualified digital certificate, by e-mail without\
  \ a qualified digital certificate, by ordinary mail and in mailboxes at social work\
  \ centres, in exceptional cases by telephone.\nThe Ministry has also provided guidance\
  \ on the procedures for granting 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 do not normally constitute\
  \ grounds for granting exceptional financial social assistance may also be taken\
  \ into account in the decision-making process, where the circumstances are exceptional\
  \ due to force majeure (COVID -19).\nIn view of the above, we consider that persons\
  \ who have lost their jobs during the crisis, as well as those whose entitlement\
  \ to unemployment benefits has expired, can claim their public benefits from the\
  \ competent social work centre, thereby mitigating the consequences of the crisis\
  \ and thereby actively beginning to resolve the problems in which they find themselves,\
  \ and for which the social work centre is competent to help them find a solution,\
  \ both during the crisis and after the crisis is over."
response date: 2020-05-12
response due date: null
sent date: 2020-03-30
title: helping people who are out of work and without help
upvotes: 44
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/11294
