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Disability Social Assistance in Bulgaria – Legal Background and Financial Analysis

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  • Georgi Shopov

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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.

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  • Georgi Shopov, 2004. "Disability Social Assistance in Bulgaria – Legal Background and Financial Analysis," Economic Studies journal, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Economic Research Institute, issue 2, pages 30-58.
    • Handle: RePEc:bas:econst:y:2004:i:2:p:30-58
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    JEL classification:

    • E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
    • H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
    • H72 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

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