Text file: 9167.txt
author: lipi
downvotes: 2
end consideration date: 2018-05-21
id: '9167'
number comments: 5
number views: 3056
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; hereinafter: ZSVarPre)\
  \ provides that an individual who is temporarily unable to provide himself with\
  \ material security according to the criteria of this Law due to circumstances beyond\
  \ his control is entitled to receive financial social assistance. The circumstances\
  \ which the individual could influence 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 social assistance,\
  \ which is intended to prevent absolute poverty and to provide the means to meet\
  \ the 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). The\
  \ 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.\n\
  The Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (hereinafter:\
  \ the Ministry) further explains that under the current social legislation, it is\
  \ possible to obtain a special supplement to the social assistance allowance, i.e.\
  \ a beneficiary of social assistance allowance who, due to old age, sickness or\
  \ disability, requires the assistance of another person in order to carry out the\
  \ basic necessities of life and who does not receive an allowance for foreign care\
  \ and assistance under other regulations, shall have the social assistance allowance\
  \ increased by an allowance for assistance and care. The need for emergency assistance\
  \ from another person shall be determined by the invalidity committee in accordance\
  \ with the rules on pension and invalidity insurance. The amount of the allowance\
  \ for assistance and care shall be set at the amount of the allowance for assistance\
  \ and care to which the beneficiary would be entitled if he were entitled to it\
  \ under the pension and invalidity insurance regulations. The Social Work Centre\
  \ may submit a proposal to the Disability Commission to reassess the need for emergency\
  \ assistance from another person for a beneficiary of the assistance and care allowance\
  \ under the Social Welfare Act if it assesses that the beneficiary's health has\
  \ improved to such an extent that he is entitled to a lower assistance and care\
  \ allowance or no longer needs it.\nThe Ministry considers that the statutory regime\
  \ is adequately regulated, since persons who have a need for assistance from another\
  \ person are entitled to the assistance allowance under the current social legislation,\
  \ which is determined by the Disability Commission.\n "
response date: 2018-06-26
response due date: null
sent date: 2018-04-30
title: Introduction of a supplement to cash social assistance for people with disabilities
upvotes: 14
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/9167
