Social assistance benefits

Social assistance pensions

Social assistance pensions are paid to disabled children; individuals recognised as disabled, who lost 45 % and more of their participation; parents, guardians and caretakers who, at least for 15 years, cared at home for the disabled persons with a need for reimbursement of costs of individual assistance and who lost 45% and more of their participation or who have attained the pensionable age; parents (adoptive parents) who raised five or more children till the age of 8 and recognised as disabled, who lost 45% and more of their participation or who have attained the pensionable age; other persons not listed above who have attained the pensionable age. 

Social assistance pensions for orphans

Social assistance pensions for orphans are paid to the children of the deceased or a person declared as deceased according to the procedure established by law: below the age of 18; over the age of 18; full time students at universities, colleges, vocational or general education schools but not older than 24; over the age of 18 who were recognised as disabled who lost 45 % and more of their participation before the age of 24 if they are recognised as disabled all the time from that day.

Social assistance compensations

Social assistance compensations are paid to: parents (adoptive parents) who cared at home for the disabled children or children with group 1 or 2 disability since childhood or who developed group 1 or 2 disability before the age of 18 for at least 8 years before 1 January 1995; mothers who gave birth to five or more children before 1 January 1995 and raised them until the age of 8.

Social assistance compensations are paid to these individuals when they are five years younger than the old-age pension age or are recognised as disabled, who lost 60% and more of their participation.

Last updated: 02-01-2025