Text file: 1530.txt
author: "radko hriber\u0161ek"
downvotes: 7
end consideration date: 2011-04-14
id: '1530'
number comments: 21
number views: 6891
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 ''the Social Security Act'') as well as the Social Security Benefits Act (Official
  Gazette of the RS, No. 61/10; hereinafter referred to as the Social Welfare Assistance
  Act), provide that a person is not entitled to social welfare benefits 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.  Therefore,
  if this condition is not met, the individual cannot be eligible for cash social
  assistance. However, the Social Work Centre may, of its own motion, within 3 years
  of the final decision, start the procedure for establishing entitlement to social
  assistance if it finds that circumstances have arisen which make it necessary to
  issue a different decision on entitlement to social assistance because the beneficiary
  was not entitled to social assistance, or was entitled to social assistance in a
  lower amount or for a shorter period. The Social Inspectorate supervises the implementation
  of the Social Assistance Act. We would also like to point out that cash social assistance
  can be paid in kind (vouchers, purchase orders, bill payments, etc.), which can
  prevent possible abuse by recipients of cash social assistance who are alcoholics
  or drug addicts and who do not use the cash social assistance received for subsistence.
  Accordingly, we consider that the above proposal has already been taken into account
  in the current Social Welfare Act as well as in the Social Welfare Act.  '
response date: 2011-04-21
response due date: null
sent date: 2011-02-23
title: ABOLITION OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
upvotes: 16
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/1530
