The city of Belgrade has changed the rules on awarding free meals, expanding the categories of users. Who has the right to a free meal at a public kitchen in Belgrade and whether the new system is fairer than the previous one
Behind the parent-caregiver law lies the division of parents of children with developmental disabilities and preparations for the elections, the group of NEGROD parents, who are taking to the streets on April 2, told "Vreme"
Thanks to Trump's new law, the rich could only get richer, and more people on food stamps would have to work to keep their benefits
In Belgrade in the last 10 years, not a single apartment for the most socially vulnerable has been built, according to the data of the organization A11
"Everything was put in one box - food, but also washing powder, soap and toothpaste. As it sat for a while, the flour, sugar, salt, rice, pasta, soup from the bag all took on the smell of the powder. I threw it all out on the terrace, where it has been standing for three days, but nothing has changed," the beneficiary of the social assistance package told "Vreme". This year, 111 million dinars have been set aside for packages, and it is questionable to what extent users can use them
According to the report A11 - Initiative for Economic and Social Rights, about 250.000 citizens of Serbia are on the minimum wage, and the prescribed minimum wage is extremely low, as is social assistance.
Cash social assistance for individuals from April to October this year amounts to 11.674 dinars, which is 229 dinars higher than in the previous half-year. Danilo Ćurčić from the Initiative for Economic and Social Rights A 11 tells "Vreme" that this "increase" is the result of adjustment with the consumer price index in the previous six months, but also that this adjustment does not fully correspond to inflation and the overall increase in the cost of living
The German Liberals (FDP) formulated demands based on the principle of less social justice, more market logic that angered their social democratic coalition partners. Deutsche Welle raises the question of the end of the coalition government of the SDP, the FDP and the Greens
Thanks to a loophole in the law, as well as supply and demand, a business model was created: men with German citizenship acknowledge paternity, and then the children and their mothers receive a residence permit and social assistance
The sharp decrease in the number of recipients of social assistance, which coincides with the introduction of the Social Card Law, is in sharp contrast to the high rates of absolute poverty in Serbia, which amounts to seven percent of the total population
from December 1, social assistance beneficiaries will be paid 10.000 dinars. Political pressures intensify in the pre-election period and are especially unscrupulous towards the citizens who are most dependent on state aid, stated in Crta.
According to the Law on the Social Card, the beneficiary's assistance is terminated, although it is not explained to him why, if he has a seasonal job, a relative with a permanent income...
In Serbia, a narrative has been built for a long time about beneficiaries of cash social assistance as some kind of parasites who live well off "our" money. That's why it takes a steady hand, and it comes in a long string of zeros and ones. The Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia no longer has to worry about this complex and difficult job. This is now done by an automated digital system that has no phone, no email, no counter
Eight years after the submitted initiatives for the evaluation of the constitutionality of Vulin's regulation, and in the days when it was announced that Aleksandar Vulin would not be a member of the new government, the Constitutional Court determined that Vulin's regulation was unconstitutional
