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The government council approved draft law No. 041.26 amending and supplementing law No. 58.23 concerning the direct social support system, in a move aimed at addressing a number of issues that emerged during the implementation of this system, especially those related to the transition of beneficiaries towards the structured labor market.
The project includes the introduction of two new main measures aimed at enhancing the economic integration of beneficiary families, while maintaining the continuity of social protection during periods of professional transition. In the first measure, the project proposes the establishment of a temporary exceptional grant for families that were benefiting from direct social support, then lost their eligibility due to the declaration of the head of the household or one of the spouses to the National Social Security Fund within the framework of structured employment, where this grant equals the value of the aid that the family was benefiting from. As for the second measure, it stipulates the abolition of the 12-month waiting condition to resume benefiting from support in the event of job loss, which is the condition stipulated in Article 7 of Law 58.23, which would facilitate the return of families to benefit immediately after loss of income. The draft law assigns the task of activating these two measures to the National Agency for Social Support, which will also evaluate the effectiveness of these measures two years after they come into effect, and propose ways to improve them. This project comes in the context of continuing to implement the royal directives aimed at strengthening the social state, and based on Article 31 of the constitution, which obliges the state to mobilize the means to ensure the right to social protection, as well as in harmony with the provisions of framework law 09.21 related to social protection. According to the data provided, these amendments aim to address the fears that the practical application of the system has produced, where some families hesitated to declare structured work for fear of losing support, which the project seeks to overcome by providing a safe transitional path between social support and economic integration.
