Over 50,000 Moldovan families benefit from social assistance
Over 50,000 families with many children, persons with disabilities, jobless as well as aged people have benefited from social assistance via the project "Support to the Delivery of Effective Sustainable Social Assistance Services", Labour, Social Protection and Family Minister Valentina Buliga has said.
Giving a news conference on the completion of the project, Buliga said that the project was aimed at shifting from the system of nominal compensations given per categories of les well-off people to a system of social assistance provided depending on families' income.
"In comparison with the old system of nominal compensations, which covered only 17 per cent of less well-off people, the new system of social assistance covers about 66 per cent of this category," Buliga said. She noted that in order to benefit from social allowances, families have to prove that each member's income does not exceed 530 lei (about 33 euros).
For his part, Deputy Labour, Social Protection and Family Minister Vadim Pistrinciuc said that the new social assistance system made it possible to cut the percentage of the poor by 15 per cent.
The project Support to the Delivery of Effective Sustainable Social Assistance Services has been implemented by the Labour, Social Protection and Family Ministry, with the support of the British Department for International Development and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency since February 2007.
Moldpres
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