Basic Income Support
Sistem socialnih pomoči
Coverage
- Persons residing in Slovenia (incl. beneficiaries of international protection and their family members) who cannot sufficiently cover their necessary subsistence from income/assets.
Financing
- The scheme is entirely tax-financed out of the general budget.
Administration
- The administration and organisation of the scheme falls under the competences of the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities.
- Territorially dispersed social work centres administer the scheme at the executive level (i.e. review applications, decide on eligibility, and pay out benefits).
Qualifying Conditions
- Persons residing in Slovenia.
- Persons with income/assets below subsistence level as defined by law (EUR 402.18 net per single person in 2020, with special requirements for family members when assistance is granted to a family, and special requirements for economically active recipients).
- Benefits are means-tested, based on monthly net income and the value of assets of the beneficiary and his or her family members, with particular types of income and assets excluded (up to a certain value or amount).
Benefits
- Monetary social assistance: provided to persons or families with income/assets below subsistence level; benefits are initially provided for 3 months (the period can be prolonged to 6 months); after the period expires, a re-evaluation occurs; if social conditions are not expected to improve due to age (older than age 65 for men and age 63 for women) and other circumstances, the benefit is granted for 1 year or permanently (special conditions apply).
- Special monetary social assistance: provided in cases of extraordinary costs.
- Social assistance supplement: provided to persons with work incapacity, unemployed persons or persons with work incapacity older than 65 (men) or 63 (women); amount determined according to the rules of the monetary social assistance with a higher means-testing threshold.
Coverage
Financing
Administration
Qualifying Conditions
Benefits
- Persons residing in Slovenia (incl. beneficiaries of international protection and their family members) who cannot sufficiently cover their necessary subsistence from income/assets.
- The scheme is entirely tax-financed out of the general budget.
- The administration and organisation of the scheme falls under the competences of the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities.
- Territorially dispersed social work centres administer the scheme at the executive level (i.e. review applications, decide on eligibility, and pay out benefits).
- Persons residing in Slovenia.
- Persons with income/assets below subsistence level as defined by law (EUR 402.18 net per single person in 2020, with special requirements for family members when assistance is granted to a family, and special requirements for economically active recipients).
- Benefits are means-tested, based on monthly net income and the value of assets of the beneficiary and his or her family members, with particular types of income and assets excluded (up to a certain value or amount).
- Monetary social assistance: provided to persons or families with income/assets below subsistence level; benefits are initially provided for 3 months (the period can be prolonged to 6 months); after the period expires, a re-evaluation occurs; if social conditions are not expected to improve due to age (older than age 65 for men and age 63 for women) and other circumstances, the benefit is granted for 1 year or permanently (special conditions apply).
- Special monetary social assistance: provided in cases of extraordinary costs.
- Social assistance supplement: provided to persons with work incapacity, unemployed persons or persons with work incapacity older than 65 (men) or 63 (women); amount determined according to the rules of the monetary social assistance with a higher means-testing threshold.
Legal Basis: Social Assistance Payments Act (Zakon o socialnovarstvenih prejemkih), Social Assistance Act (Zakon o socialnem varstvu). Exercise of Rights from Public Funds Act (Zakon o uveljavljanju pravic iz javnih sredstev).