Bìznes Inform (Apr 2023)
Filters in Providing Social Assistance to the Working Population: Possibilities of Institutionalization
Abstract
The purpose of the article was to study the social protection of the able-bodied population in the context of the systematization of filters when determining the target group of beneficiaries with an outline of the ways of further reforming social protection with the optimization of the filtering process. In the process of researching legal acts that regulate social protection, we discovered the following filters, which are used to screen out applicants and form an address group of aid recipients: insurance case; conditionality of social assistance; financial capacity of a person or a family; a person's participation in the mandatory State social insurance; participation in active employment programs; tying the amount of assistance to social standards and/or the presence of previous uniform contributions to the mandatory State social insurance, taking into account insurance experience and the amount of wages. As a result of the study, debatable aspects were revealed in the formation of the population filtering process from the standpoint of defining the target group of persons. In order to institutionalize the system of social protection of the able-bodied population, the following proposals have been formulated: the assessment of a person's financial capacity should be based on fair social standards; the system of social protection for able-bodied persons should be built by encouraging them to make social contributions, to be a member of the mandatory State social insurance; mandatory participation of able-bodied persons in employment programs to support their competitiveness on the labor market, formation of motivation for social participation in social-labor relations in order to help a person get out of the status of a beneficiary; simplification of procedures and restrictions that hinder the receipt of assistance; in some types of aid, its conditionality should be strengthened to improve the quality of human capital formation; strengthening supervision and application of relevant norms regarding informal employment, in particular through better coordination of actions of relevant government structures; conducting social awareness campaigns regarding the negative consequences of informal employment for social protection.
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