For 6 years 10,000 families have left social schemes in Kosovo

According to this institute, 10,000 families have left social schemes in Kosovo within 6 years.

There have been several factors that have contributed to the removal of this number from the scheme:

In 2012 MPMS decided to review the Law on Social Squemma, a change in the completion of the SAS law 20/03/15, which set several new criteria aimed at reducing the number of households, which dropped a considerable number from the beneficiary lists without any preliminary analysis on the field.

The establishment of new criteria, where when the child reaches the age of 18, he is viewed as active jobseekers, even though there are many cases that are still in high school, it becomes an obstacle to social scheme and turns his family away from the opportunity of the SAS, even though needs continue to be great. The law does not allow more than 1 active job seekers within the family, and the truth is that the number of employees from the employment entity is minimal.

Don't skip the criteria for 5-year-olds, for category two, a discriminating criterion for many families, which therefore remain without social assistance.

Article 4.5. The right to social assistance in the second category brings home to a family member capable of work and:
a) with at least one child under the age of five (5); or b) who have an orphan under the age of 15 (15) in permanent care.

With the development of the new database system, there are criteria that are in conflict with Article 1 of the Law, which says “with this law regulates the social assistance scheme in Kosovo, with the aim of supporting and providing temporary financial assistance to families in poverty” and the established criteria that number poets and including numbers of livestock, labor tools, household equipment, basic furniture, housing conditions. Through these criteria, family policy is also developed, often in spite of the dire state of a family that does not enjoy social assistance. Even though the family may possess relatively good housing conditions, but for a moment it remains without any income for family, and the state has to cover it for a period of family until circumstances change.

But even social assistance, which is 107 euros per month, is estimated to be 22 euros per month per member, or more than 70 cents a day, does not meet the needs of families.

IZHPS points out that the “specified criteria are interpreted in different forms across QPS The Center for Social Affairs, often creating misunderstandings and family departures, leaving out of the system many merit families and in need. For more than 10 years in Kosovo, there has been no estimate of how much the monthly basket costs for a family of 5 members, how much the amount families receive at the SAS and what needs to be changed”.

Even the growth that has been done in families that remain within social assistance within these years has benefited from symbolic growth.

From this growth “in 2015 it was 25% and the next time it was 2018 to 20%, which at the rate looks good, but in small values it has been a very symbolic increase, about 18 euros per month per family or 4 euros per member”.

The data shows that “based on official data the number of beneficiaries of the Social Assistance Centre (SAS) in Kosovo during 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 has been around 35,000 families with about 155,000 members. The year 2017 and 2018 Kosovo finds it with about 250,000 families (about 105 000 members). This implies that for 6 years the total number of households benefiting social assistance has dropped to 10,000, which for a country like Kosovo is a huge number of”, the Institute for Development of Social Policy concludes.