Причини за дефицита на адекватност на социалните помощи в България
Reasons for the Inadequacy of Social Assistance in Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: Linking social assistance to the poverty line and removing the guaranteed minimum income as the basis for determining social assistance in Bulgaria marks a significant systemic change implemented in 2023 by the Agency for Social Assistance. The reform aims to enhance the adequacy and coverage of payments from the social assistance system, targeted at socially vulnerable individuals in Bulgaria. Over the past three years, the experience of granting benefits to those in need shows that simply introducing the poverty line is not enough to achieve this goal. This conclusion arises not only because inflation consistently „outpaces” social payments (due to the statutory mechanism for calculating the poverty line), but also because there is a lack of a functioning, reliable mechanism for automatically indexing the amount of social assistance—more often than once a year—based on current inflation rates, in cases of objective need

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