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People with disabilities who have a TEMP greater than 70.1% and with the right to foreign assistance, as well as children with disabilities greater than 90% will have the right to personal assistance as of January 1, 2021. This was finally decided deputies with amendments to the Personal Assistance Law. help today.
Until now, such assistance was provided only to children with more than 90% disabilities, as well as adults with disabilities with more than 90% of TEMP and the right to foreign assistance. The original idea of the law was that next year more than 670 thousand people with disabilities will have the right to personal assistance, regardless of their type and degree. However, government estimates have shown that this could cost more than a billion, and it would be difficult to find so many personal assistants. Therefore, even now the change in the law will practically broaden the circle of aid beneficiaries, including people with TEMC decisions between 70.01% and 89.99%, but it will not be for all those who need it.
“Just think: there are many cases in which people with more than 50% disability are completely independent and do not need that help. But there are people who need it and do not have 50% disability. I give an example: a person is falls, a femur breaks, someone has to take it to work, there is no relative in the family to support it. We make it impossible for this person to receive assistance. And I do not see why they do not accept it. that TEMC’s decision is not fundamental in the mechanism of personal assistance, but in the assessment of individual needs, ”jumped BSP deputy Nadia Klisurska.
The law broadens the circle of those who are entitled to personal assistance with the group, which has TEMC decisions between 70 and 90% with foreign assistance. According to the registry, it is about 80,000 people who will be able to benefit, and if they will, it is a completely different issue, and if they will find assistants, a third, said the head of the social commission and MRF deputy Hassan Ademov.
What do we do with the others? The answer is that they go to the Social Services Law in order to use the assistance. Yes, but do you want to take advantage of someone else’s help? What is the problem? These multifunctional teams, which are attached to the social assistance directorates, when assessing needs, there is no information on how many hours will be provided, regardless of whether there is a methodology, regardless of whether there is a criterion for determining these hours. And since you don’t have and there is no way to get it, what do you do? You determine the economic resource of 214 million and 85 million in the other law and according to the money we determine access to personal assistance, he added. He stressed that now in practice “under the motto we increase the number of beneficiaries, we isolate a large part.”
The coefficient of 1.2 of the minimum wage will remain the minimum wage of the assistants. It was supposed to increase to 1.4 for next year, but with the changes the deputies kept it. Thus, with the increase in the minimum wage, attendees will receive BGN 780 for an 8-hour working day.
“Tens of thousands of Bulgarian women are currently working as personal assistants in Greece, because the minimum wage there is 1,200 BGN,” said BSP MP Anton Kutev. He stressed that if it was accepted that the coefficient was higher at the beginning, we would have adequate attention and willing assistants.
And now when we say – if the assistants don’t come, what should we do, because the mayors are very concerned and they say – they oblige us by law to have assistants and provide them, but if they don’t come, what can I do? Reasonable question. And answer. It is up to all of us to raise the salary and make the conditions of the law remain assistants, and that is exactly what we are not doing.
The number of hours of personal assistance will be given according to the Individual Assessment Methodology based on four levels of dependence on intensive support. According to them, for the first grade, the person will be entitled to 25 hours of personal assistance per month, for the second grade – up to 42 hours, for the third – up to 84 hours and for the fourth – up to 168 hours.
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