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.

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.

SPECIAL PROGRAMME OF ASSISTANCE

SPECIAL PROGRAMMES OF ASSISTANCE

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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.

To reinforce government assistance programs.

3. Special programmes of assistance

Item 3. Special programmes of assistance

Public institutions are likely to remain only partially able to finance and implement large scale social assistance programmes in the near term.

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).

In 2003 2004, about 4.57 billion or seven percent of Ontario's operating budget was spent on social assistance programs.

II. HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE PROGRAMMES 1992 TO 1994 ... 7 80 3

II. HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE PROGRAMMES 1992 TO 1994

Assistance for project preparation is also provided by some bilateral aid programmes.

Training programmes for humanitarian assistance are also being developed.

That emphasis will continue in the design of future assistance programmes.

(b) Assisting in the preparation and implementation of national action programmes

(b) assisting in the preparation and implementation of national action programmes

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.

The Building Independence Strategy includes eight diverse income support programs aimed at assisting low income families to move from social assistance into the labour market.

(m) Employment creation programmes of the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare

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.

Some indicated that those efforts were at the stage of studying cannabis cultivation and its socio economic impact and of assessing alternative development programmes and appealed for assistance from the international community in support of their efforts.

(h) Helping to formulate specific capacity building programmes and activities

To assist the secretariat in reviewing and assessing assistance programmes and policies (1995) 15 000

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.

State programmes had been adopted for developing rural areas, which placed emphasis on social infrastructure.

A torrent of peer to peer social networks and real time technologies, fundamentally changing the way we behave.

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.

One of its bilateral assistance programmes provided training in third countries.

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.