Social Security

Tag: Social protection

Protest for the introduction of the Parent-Caregiver Law

Social protection

10.July 2026 MLJ

What will the adopted Parent-Caregiver Law bring?

The members of the Serbian Parliament adopted the Law on Parents-Caregivers. It introduces the right to the status of parent, carer and carer, as well as a monthly financial allowance of 65.000 dinars, with the payment of contributions for health, pension and disability insurance

children with developmental disabilities

Social protection

15.June 2026 Anja Mihic

Deprivation of legal capacity: Parental fear for which Serbia has no solution

For parents of children with developmental disabilities, the issue of employability comes with concerns about the future. How to protect a child and not deny him the right to decide on his own life?

Mental health

20.May 2026. Anja Mihic

Horder in the neighborhood: I need everything

When the need to accumulate things breaks through the boundaries of one's home, a collective misfortune emerges from a private misfortune. The institutions have no answer, the neighbors live in hell, and the person who accumulates things becomes condemned to isolation

Social protection

17.April 2026. Anja Mihic

Public debate on the Draft Law on parent-caregiver: What is good and what is not

The public debate on the Draft Law on Parents-Caregivers begins. Opinions are divided, numerous criticisms are coming

Social protection

31.march 2026 Marija L. Jankovic

Center for Moms: "Child allowance does not feed a child for a week, let alone a whole month"

Although the state has raised the threshold for child allowance, this aid "cannot feed a child in Serbia for even a week, let alone a whole month", the Center for Mothers told "Vreme"

Life in poverty

03.January 2026 Milica Srejić

Poverty in Serbia: How to survive another year

In Serbia, at least a quarter of people barely make ends meet, and the number of absolutely poor countries is deliberately not published. Those people, says the interlocutor of "Vremen", are condemned to false promises and political blackmail of the authorities, and to life with their noses just above water.

Social protection

27.June 2025 MS

Serbia's family policy and hungry children: What do the statistics say?

While the public authorities are leading a pro-natal policy, basic regulations for child care are lacking. What is missing and what are the data?

Serbia does not measure the number of citizens in absolute poverty

Social policy

27.May 2025. Milica Srejić

Statistical games: Why is absolute poverty no longer measured in Serbia?

After the statement by the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, that the poor in Serbia live significantly better than before, we asked the question: on the basis of what information did he arrive at that data and how does Serbia measure poverty in general

System crisis

02.February 2025. Milica Srejić

Social workers strike: Neglected, undervalued, overworked

The strike is slowly spreading through Serbia. The suspension of the work of workers in the social protection system was announced for February 14. What is the position of the workers? What are their problems? Is this system also in crisis?

Social protection

15.August 2024 SZ

Unions: It is pointless for the minimum wage to be below the value of the minimum consumer basket

The minimum wage in Serbia this year is about 47.000 dinars, and the proposal of the Association of Independent Trade Unions of Serbia is that it will be 61.858 dinars next year.

Cash social assistance insufficient for survival

Strategy for social protection

19.June 2024 MS

How to survive in Serbia: Cash assistance for a family of three, 21.013 dinars

The UNICEF poverty projection in Serbia for 2023 shows that 12,1 percent of Serbian citizens, about 800.000 people, are in absolute poverty. And for fifteen years, the state has not had a Social Protection Strategy that would improve services and social security. In addition, the system lacks from 700 to 1000 professional staff

Research

18.June 2024 Aleksandar Djokic

Social protection system in Serbia: What happens to the children of femicide victims

"I will fight so that the killer's sister does not get custody, who said she was guilty of not killing my Olga herself." This is what Ljiljana Antić told "Blic" in 2017, who fought for her grandchildren after her daughter was killed by her husband. Seven years later, more than 200 femicides occurred in Serbia, according to data from the Autonomous Women's Center (AŽC).

Serbia

01.February 2024. Sanja Zrnić

Nursing homes are becoming more expensive: The state would have to come to the rescue

Prices in state nursing homes are thirty percent higher as of this February. "It would be ideal if the state would pay extra for people who cannot afford a home," Radoslav Milovanović, President of the Association of Private Social Welfare Institutions, told Vreme.

Child neglect

21.September 2023 Z.S.

The Protector of Citizens calls the institutions to account: How long will this be?

The Protector of Citizens, Zoran Pašalić, initiated, on his own initiative, the procedure to assess the legality and regularity of the work of the City Center for Social Work in Belgrade upon learning that a malnourished two-year-old child was successfully resuscitated yesterday.

Poverty

01.August 2023 AE

Italy: Citizens were informed by SMS that they will lose social assistance

Hundreds of thousands of unemployed and low-income citizens in Italy will have their social assistance suspended starting today, as they were informed via text messages. This measure, launched by Giuseppe Conte's government in March 2019, aimed to provide support to the poorest who received around 550 euros per month

The World

25.April 2023. I.Đ.

It's official: Joseph Biden ran again for the US presidential election

The current president of the USA announced the start of the campaign with the term "freedom". Until November 2024 and the election, Biden will focus his campaign on the issues of abortion rights, the defense of democracy, voting rights and the social safety net.

Pensioners are playing chess in the park

News

17.march 2022 S.Ć.

Pensioners in Serbia: Life on 20.000 dinars per month

In his pre-election speeches, Ivica Dačić talks about pensioners who do not exist in Serbia. Last year, about 600.000 of them received a pension of less than 20.000 dinars. Complaints that came to the Office of the Commissioner for Protection of Equality last year and refer to discrimination based on age are in second place.