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Minister of Labor and Social Policy Lazar Lazarov at a media briefing

Lazar Lazarov was born on March 18, 1970 in Sofia.

He graduated from the UNSS, major revealed which persons will receive additional assistance of BGN 300 for heating during this heating season.

"This year, the government implemented its regular program for targeted energy assistance, with BGN 623.35 targeted assistance for this season supporting 302 thousand people.

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At the end of October, the government took a second measure in the area of ​​targeted assistance for heating and approved an additional resource to the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy to provide support to families whose income exceeds the specified income for assistance with targeted assistance up to BGN 40 at that time almost 10 thousand are the persons who are supported with BGN 400", he informed.

"Today we accepted a new one-off assistance in the amount of BGN 300 for heating for the following target groups - they are eight, which are supported in accordance with the Law on Family Benefits for Children - families who receive monthly benefits for a child without the right to an inheritance pension from deceased parent;

families who receive monthly allowances for raising a child with permanent disabilities up to the age of 18 until the completion of secondary education, but no later than the age of 20;

families receiving support for children placed in the families of relatives or relatives or in a foster family;

persons who were supported this year as a result of natural disasters;

persons who, according to the Law on Persons with Disabilities, currently receive benefits for persons with disabilities over 90% degree of disability with foreign assistance, who receive only a social disability pension,

or those with over 90% disability with foreign assistance who also receive a pension for work activity.

Other specific groups are war veterans and military invalids and war victims," ​​the minister announced.

"The government is focusing on providing additional support for these individuals.

In total, they are about 50 thousand people.

With this we consider that they will be undercut within their budgets to cover heating costs for this season.

These persons will not submit documents to the Social Assistance Agency.

They have already been identified, we will grant the aid under a simplified procedure.

I expect this to happen by the end of this year so that individuals can make informed choices about how to meet their heating costs," he added.

The government allocates additional funds for heating subsidies

He explained that this is the third measure in the framework of the government's policy towards low-income and vulnerable social groups: "In this way, we will provide adequate support to all those who need it - a total of about 380 thousand people during this heating season are users of the support provided by the state."

Lazar Lazarov

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