The Social Protection

Participants of the meeting of the Committee for Social Policy, Health, Family and Children discussed the initiative of the prosecutor of the Republic amending the law "On the burial and funeral business". The law-in-draft is designed based on numerous complaints of citizens who were denied benefit payment of relatives’ funeral. These are the cases when a citizen died on the territory of Moldova, but buried in Pridnestrovie. The problem is that under current law, benefits are available exclusively on the basis of a certificate of death, and the Moldovan medical institutions issued a medical certificate. The prosecutor suggested replacing the words "certificate" with more capacious concept of "document" to eliminate this inconsistency. Government opposes, arguing the emergence of multiple “loopholes” for getting put under the law of funds for funeral procedures (at the place of the deceased receive a pension, the organization where he worked, the local executive authorities of the place of residence, etc.). There is no such problem in the neighboring state, because they have a single fund of national security. Payments to various categories of citizens are made from a variety of sources in Pridnestrovie. In other words the solution requires much more voluminous question - change the financing structure ideally. According to the executive, the government is working in this direction. Official conclusions on the initiative of the prosecutor have not been received. Participants of the meeting, representing the specialized state agencies were asked to postpone (not for the first time) consideration. Committee members are on their way to talk. Registrar employees were invited to following discussion on this topic in order to determine whether turning to them for confirmation of foreign documents fixing the fact of death of the Pridnestrovian citizens.

Discussion of other socially significant law-in-draft was active. They talked about committee amendments to the government's initiative to amend the law "On State benefits for citizens with children". Adjustments according to the explanatory note, will clearly define the circle of persons entitled to state benefits for children. The authors propose to take into account two factors: residence and allocation of insurance premiums to pay the person applying for the grant. After examining the initiative, members noted several controversial things. First, the law-in-draft ignored the interests of individual businessmen. The Committee proposes to include them in the list of potential beneficiaries. Secondly, legislators do not agree on the need to provide documents about the non-receipt of social benefits (maternity, children) at the place of permanent residence outside PMR.

In response to the arguments of the representative of the EGFSS on difficult financial situation of the parliamentarians insisted that the basic law has to be focused on social justice. Economic difficulties should be reflected in the budget law. During the plenary session, each party will defend its position. Time will tell what decision the deputies will make.