Area: Finance
Competent authority: MDDSZ
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 962
Initiative accepted and completed: '2020-05-28'
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2019-05-21'
Initiative published: '2019-05-21'
Initiative submitted: '2019-05-21'
Response from the competent authority: "Reply from the Ministry of Labour, Family,\
  \ Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities:Unfortunately, the petition does not provide\
  \ any information on the type of grant, which would allow us to check the progress\
  \ of the instalment repayment procedure with the grant provider. Scholarship holders\
  \ may receive different types of scholarships, and the type of scholarship also\
  \ varies according to the scholarship provider - e.g. the State Scholarship is awarded\
  \ by the Centres for Social Work (CSD), while the Zois Scholarship is awarded by\
  \ the Public Scholarship, Development, Disability and Maintenance Fund of the Republic\
  \ of Slovenia (the Fund).The Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal\
  \ Opportunities (MoLFSEA) explains that under the Law on Education, Social Affairs\
  \ and Equal Opportunities (Z\u0160tip-1), instalment repayment is possible if it\
  \ significantly improves the chances of the scholarship holder to repay the scholarship,\
  \ who would otherwise not be able to recover the full repayment of the scholarship,\
  \ and the scholarship holder is unable to repay the scholarship in one lump sum\
  \ for justified reasons. An instalment repayment agreement shall be concluded between\
  \ the scholarship holder and the scholarship awarding body, in which case the scholarship\
  \ awarding body shall assess whether the agreement:\r\n1. significantly improves\
  \ the scholarship holder's chances of repaying the scholarship; and\r\n2. the scholarship\
  \ holder is unable to repay the scholarship in a lump sum for justified reasons.With\
  \ regard to the manner of verifying the above two conditions, the Z\u0160tip-1 does\
  \ not provide for a procedural rule, nor does it refer to the application of the\
  \ Instructions on the manner of securing and charging interest on the deferment\
  \ of payment of a debt owed by a debtor to the State or a municipality (the Instructions),\
  \ which were identified by the party in the petition.We have checked with the Fund\
  \ whether they apply the above-mentioned rules when concluding agreements on the\
  \ instalment repayment of the grant and have received a reply that they do not apply\
  \ the above-mentioned Guidelines and that, in the case where the grant holder is\
  \ willing to repay the grant received unjustifiably, they conclude an agreement\
  \ with him/her without the need for the grant holder to attach any certificates.As\
  \ regards the work of the CSDs, however, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour\
  \ and Social Fund is not in a position to provide a concrete answer. There are 62\
  \ units in the territory of the Republic of Slovenia and, as we do not know from\
  \ which place the client originates, we were not able to verify whether the CSD\
  \ in charge is conducting the procedure of instalment repayment of the grant in\
  \ accordance with the above-mentioned instructions.The MDDSZ further explains that\
  \ it agrees with the client's allegations and that when conducting the procedure\
  \ ex officio, the authority is obliged to obtain the information on which official\
  \ records are kept and that it is not the client's obligation to provide such information."
Text file: 962.txt
Title: Linking authorities to official records of other authorities
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=962
