Disability Social Assistance in Bulgaria – Legal Background and Financial Analysis

Georgi Shopov ()

Economic Studies journal, 2004, issue 2, 30-58

Abstract: The study has the following main objectives: 1. Outline the coverage of the current programs for social protection of disabled in Bulgaria. The type of different payments (cash, in-kind, in the form of services, tax, insurance and other financial privileges), the state institution providing the respective payment and the governing law have been described in a structured manner. 2. Analyze the changes in the legal background regulating the financing of disability social assistance. The changes in the 1999-2002 period and after 2002 when the financing of the larger part of the disability social assistance is centralized have been reviewed. 3. Analyze the relevant financial flows. The dynamic and structural changes in the revenues and expenditures of disability social assistance in the 1999-2003 period have been analyzed and the foregone revenues for disabled have been assessed. Generalize strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats before the disability social protection in Bulgaria. On this basis some conclusions for necessary changes in the design and mechanisms for carrying out the social policy in that area have been formulated.

JEL-codes: E6 H53 H72 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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