Social assistance

In its turn, the development of the social assistance policy and its implementation became the basic task of the Social Assistance Department at the MW in the course of the reform.

Social assistance services have three main directions financial assistance, social rehabilitation, and social care.

Kinoniki Arogi Ellados (Social Assistance of Greece)

Social assistance services for children Basic tasks of social assistance services intended for children are to provide conditions that would be, as far as possible, equal to home conditions, a family environment.

The Law On Social Assistance structures the social assistance system, making it purposeful and in line with the needs of the community and its notions about social assistance.

Financial assistance Financial assistance includes the state social benefit system and municipal social assistance benefits.

The task of the social assistance benefits is to provide short term support and the benefit is only one form of social assistance.

However, the social assistance benefits constitute the largest share of the local budget expenditures for social assistance activities (see the table).

More than 3 billion was spent on financial assistance measures in 2003 2004, including the Programme d'assistance emploi, the Fonds d'aide à l'action communautaire and the Fonds québécois d'initiatives sociales.

Work incentives to encourage recipients of social assistance to find employment included not counting a certain portion of their earnings when calculating social assistance.

Thus in 1996 the Social Assistance Fund was established, providing the administrative and financial management of social assistance providers, as well as summarizing information about services provided.

In order to improve the administration of public functions in the area of social assistance, emphasizing the focus on the recipient of the service, a public agency the Social Assistance Fund has been established, which organizes annual public procurement tenders for the provision of social assistance services among legal persons.

However, the year 1996 should be considered to be the beginning of the reform in the social assistance system.

Targeted social assistance is governed by the law passed in 2001 on State targeted social assistance.

Since 2001 2002, the total social assistance caseload has levelled off.

Today, the country has four female ministers, with the replacement of the Minister of Social Assistance.

Respective amendments to the Law On Social Assistance have been drafted and submitted for review to the Saeima.

The commenced changes included the change of institutions operating in the social assistance system.

Currently amendments to the Law On Social Assistance are reviewed by the Saeima.

Issues related to the social assistance are regulated by the Law On Social Assistance and other legal acts regulating issues related to various groups of the population.

They are as follows financial possibilities of local governments the understanding that the head of the local government has about social assistance the professionalism of social workers at local governments information about social assistance services.

The Government of Canada does not provide social assistance benefits directly to individuals.

Social assistance rates in Yukon have remained unchanged since 1992.

One fifth of that assistance will be allocated to basic social services such as nutrition, health and education.

On these grounds, the development of a new social security system, including the system of social assistance, was started.

(c) Increasing access to basic social services in order to reduce dependency on humanitarian aid

The services were offered at a reduced price for the general population and free of charge for parents receiving social assistance benefits.

The right to receive social assistance services does not depend on the contribution payments made by the persons.

Basic social protection rights granted the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina include several forms of cash and other assistance.

In 2004, the government restored the pregnancy nutritional allowance for pregnant women on social assistance.

New Brunswick continues to pass on the National Child Benefit to its social assistance recipients.

Assistance in the framing of government policies and stimulating social attitudes in order to achieve gender equality

In 2003, some 860,000 individuals received targeted social assistance.

The four municipal social benefits prescribed by the Law On Social Assistance are to be substituted by one benefit a benefit for ensuring a minimum income.

Funds spent for the most important municipal social benefits, in thousands LVL In order to ensure that the system of municipal social assistance benefits is focused on the poorest inhabitants of local governments, to prevent the stratification of the society, social exclusion and to prevent the inheriting of poverty by future generations, in 1999 work was started on changing the system of municipal social assistance benefits.

To consolidate the social assistance system of the Government and form networks made up by the civil and private sectors.

There was a commitment in the December 2004 New Brunswick Speech from the Throne to raise social assistance rates.

The Court of Appeal accepted that social assistance receipt was a ground of discrimination recognised in the Charter.

(d) Give attention to addressing and overcoming sociocultural barriers that inhibit victims from seeking assistance

Possibilities for the population to receive social assistance services that correspond to specific needs depend on several factors.

In addition, missions are ensuring that victims of sexual abuse are referred to existing emergency assistance (medical, psychosocial, legal) in the mission area

People who become homeless qualify for assistance programs in the form of emergency shelter or hotel accommodation, through general social assistance programs rather than housing programs.

59 238. Rendering assistance to poor mountain countries to overcome obstacles in socio economic and ecological areas

The average social assistance benefit went from 593 in 2000 to 667 in 2004.