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Social assistance for children stopped if they did not go to school

Social aid for children will be suspended for a year if they do not go regularly to kindergarten or school. This was decided at first reading by the National Assembly on a proposal by GERB for amendments to the Social Assistance Act. Measures proposed by the United Patriots coalition that make monthly social benefits linked to socially useful work, were also supported. The MRF opposed the measures, calling them extreme, and did not support the changes.




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