Text file: 1346.txt
author: makro55
downvotes: 5
end consideration date: 2011-01-21
id: '1346'
number comments: 7
number views: 4220
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: 'Response by the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs

  The Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs responds that the currently applicable
  Social Welfare Act (Official Journal of the Republic of Slovenia, No 3/07 - Official
  consolidated text, 114/06 - ZUTPG, 5/07 Decision, 23/07 - Amended, 41/07 - Amended),
  5/08 Decision, 73/08 Decision, 8/09 Decision and 53/09 Decision; hereinafter referred
  to as ZSV) as well as the Act on Social Security Benefits (Official Gazette of the
  RS, No 61/10; hereinafter referred to as ZSVarPre), which enters into force on 1.6.2008.
  2011, provide that a person is not entitled to social assistance if he/she does
  not meet the minimum income for reasons beyond his/her control or for reasons beyond
  his/her control, or if he/she refuses, avoids or abandons, without justifiable reasons,
  activities which could or might lead to employment or to other means of improving
  the social situation of him/her and his/her family members. These reasons include
  serving a prison sentence. Accordingly, we consider that the above proposal has
  already been taken into account in the current CSL as well as in the CSVarPre. However,
  we do not consider that it would make sense to deprive of financial social assistance
  those who have been convicted of a criminal offence but are not serving a prison
  sentence, as they are nevertheless in a position to actively address their social
  problems and depriving them of financial social assistance would put them in even
  greater hardship.  '
response date: 2011-02-09
response due date: null
sent date: 2010-12-19
title: Withdrawal of social support from criminals
upvotes: 8
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/1346
