Social programs

Additional BGN 80 million are provided by the government to tackle unemployment in Bulgaria. Money will be directed to long-term unemployed and unskilled people. This is what Deputy Social Minister Zornitsa Rusinova told in front of the Bulgarian National Television.

Police in Thessaloniki on Tuesday were seeking a 71-year-old man who had allegedly been pocketing the disability benefit of his dead wife for the past four years.

According to police sources, the man failed to report the death of his wife, who was a paraplegic, in 2014 so that he could continue cashing her benefit checks.

Unemployment in Bulgaria slightly declines in September on a monthly basis, reaching a level of 6.1%.

This is the latest Eurostat seasonally adjusted data released today (October 31) and quoted by Investor.bg.

Higher maternity and unemployment benefits, but a smaller amount of sick leave  for the budget of the State Social Security for next year, bTV announced.

The average insured income for the country in August 2017 is BGN 804.44, the National Statistical Institute reported.

The average monthly insurance income for the country for the period from 01.09.2016 to 31.08.2017 is BGN 801.86.

The average monthly insured income for the country in July 2017 is BGN 811.75.

The average monthly insurance income for the country for the period from 01.08.2016 to 31.07.2017 is BGN 797.70, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) has reported.

In its much touted effort to pursue what it describes as a more socially minded agenda, the government is mulling a plan to grant higher benefits for families with one or two children, but its implementation will depend on the cost-saving margin of other sectors.

These costs will be estimated in the ongoing budget spending review.

Almost three in every four (73 percent) people who graduated after 2011 in Greece collect no more than 800 euros per month, while one in six gets less than 400 euros per month, if they have a job, according to the findings of a survey the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) presented on Wednesday.

The average social security income for Bulgaria in March 2017 was BGN 811.13. The average monthly social security income for the country in the period April 1, 2016 - March 31, 2017 was BGN 781.25. This was announced by the National Social Security Institute.

The amount of the average social security income for Bulgaria in February 2017 was BGN 791.26, the National Social Security Institute (NSI) announced.

The average social security income for the country for the period March 1, 2016 - February 28, 2017 was BGN 777.36.