Text file: 9098.txt
author: rhspro
downvotes: 10
end consideration date: 2018-04-19
id: '9098'
number comments: 9
number views: 3015
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response by the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities\n\
  The Law on Social Security Benefits (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia,\
  \ No. 61/10, 40/11, 14/13, 99/13, 90/15, 88/16 and 31/18) stipulates that an individual\
  \ who is temporarily unable to provide for his/her own material security according\
  \ to the criteria of this Law due to circumstances beyond his/her control is entitled\
  \ to receive financial social assistance. The circumstances that could be influenced\
  \ by the individual are defined in the current law by way of examples. The purpose\
  \ of cash social assistance is to provide a means of subsistence within the limits\
  \ set by the applicable law. Cash social assistance is intended for a single person\
  \ or for the family as a whole. The amount of cash social assistance, which is intended\
  \ to prevent absolute poverty and to provide the means to meet minimum subsistence\
  \ needs, is determined by deducting from the subsistence amount - the minimum income\
  \ of the single person or the sum of the minimum incomes of the individual members\
  \ of the family (the 'census') - the income of the single person or the family determined\
  \ in the manner laid down by law (own income).\nThe minimum income of a single person\
  \ or the sum of the minimum incomes of the individual members of a family is determined\
  \ under the current law in accordance with the equivalence scale and in relation\
  \ to the basic amount of the minimum income.\nCash social assistance shall be granted\
  \ on a permanent basis to a beneficiary who is permanently unemployed or permanently\
  \ incapable of work, or who is unemployed and over 63 years of age for women and\
  \ 65 years of age for men, and who is without assets which may be taken into account\
  \ under the law governing the exercise of rights deriving from public funds, or\
  \ who is in institutional care and whose family members also fulfil these conditions.\n\
  During the period of receipt of social assistance, the recipient of social assistance\
  \ benefits shall be obliged to accept any employment offered to him or to which\
  \ he is referred by the institution. The law further provides that a person is not\
  \ entitled to social assistance if he or she does not meet the minimum income for\
  \ reasons beyond his or her control or for reasons beyond his or her control, or\
  \ if he or she refuses, avoids or abandons, without justifiable reasons, activities\
  \ which could or might lead to employment or to any other means of improving his\
  \ or her social situation or that of his or her family members. Reasons shall include,\
  \ inter alia, the reasons for which the competent employment authority has ceased\
  \ to keep the person in the register of unemployed persons, namely if he/she refuses\
  \ to participate in an active employment policy measure or breaches the obligations\
  \ entered into in the agreement on participation in an active employment policy\
  \ measure, refuses suitable or suitable employment or does not make any effort to\
  \ obtain it when interviewed for a job. Therefore, when claiming the right to financial\
  \ social assistance, the social work centre verifies the conditions for claiming\
  \ this right. If the applicant fulfils the conditions, the entitlement is granted,\
  \ otherwise the application is refused. A recipient of social assistance who is\
  \ unemployed and does not receive unemployment benefits is obliged to accept any\
  \ employment offered or referred to him/her by the institution while receiving social\
  \ assistance. A recipient of cash social assistance who refuses or terminates an\
  \ offer of employment shall forfeit the right to cash social assistance. The refusal\
  \ or termination of employment shall be established by a decision of the competent\
  \ authority of the institution, which shall immediately inform the social work centre\
  \ thereof. The decision granting the social assistance shall be annulled by the\
  \ social work centre as from the first day of the month following the refusal or\
  \ interruption of the employment.\nThe application form which a person must complete\
  \ in order to claim entitlement to public benefits shall remind the applicant that\
  \ he or she is obliged to notify, within eight days, any changes affecting entitlement\
  \ to public benefits and that, in the event of any misrepresentation, omission or\
  \ failure to notify information in time, the beneficiary shall be obliged to repay\
  \ the funds unduly received.\nBeneficiaries under this Law are citizens of the Republic\
  \ of Slovenia who have permanent residence in the Republic of Slovenia and foreigners\
  \ who have a permanent residence permit and permanent residence in the Republic\
  \ of Slovenia.\nCash social assistance is not a universal entitlement to which a\
  \ person is entitled because he or she is not employed and has no fixed income,\
  \ but the circumstances are examined by granting entitlement for a fixed period\
  \ of three months or six months. The social protection system provides basic protection\
  \ in the form of individualised assistance to overcome personal hardship and economic\
  \ difficulties. An individual and a family must exhaust all possibilities of self-support\
  \ before they can qualify for social assistance from the State.\n "
response date: 2018-06-05
response due date: null
sent date: 2018-03-29
title: Increases and decreases in cash social assistance and aid for the needy
upvotes: 14
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/9098
