Novčane naknade usmerene na smanjenje siromaštva u Srbiji ‒ politike i dileme
Forms of financial assistance for poverty reduction in Serbia ‒ policies and dilemmas

Summary/Abstract: In this article the author discusses two major financial forms of assistance for the poor in Serbia – child welfare benefit and social welfare benefit, as well as the changes of legislative framework after 2000. New laws improve position of families with children with special needs, single parents and foster parents in order to support non-institutional care for children without parental care. Also, new mechanisms have been introduced with aim to integrate these new measures with other support measures – obligatory schooling or obligation to participate in programs that provide social inclusion, as well as some limitation for support of beneficiaries that are able to work. Significant novelty can been seen in shift from institutional toward alternative, non-institutional forms of social welfare. The most important conceptual dilemmas related to social welfare system are further discussed in the paper.

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