Background information

The measure was established in the Government Regulation No. 160/2022 and No. 228/2022 which amend the Government Regulation No. 103/2020 on some measures in labour, social affairs and family subsidies during the state of emergency announced in connection with COVID-19, established a new measure to mitigate negative consequences of inflation on certain population groups.

Content of measure

The measure refers to one-off subsidy of €100 to certain groups of population. The purpose is to provide financial support to vulnerable groups to cover increased living costs. Eligible is the physical person with permanent or temporary residency in the Slovak Republic who is either:

• a personal assistant provided personal assistance to the person with disabilities based on the agreement concluded between the assistant and his/her client and who provided assistance in the first quarter of the year 2022 for at least 12 hours,
• an informal caregivers providing homecare to a person with severe disability or to a person older than 80 years of age and not receiving care allowance,
• a person who reached 62 years of age not later than in May 2022 and does not receive pensions (such as retirement, early retirement, widow/widower, disability pension) or
• a person whose social insurance was paid by the state in May 2022 due to his/her care of a child with long-term adverse health condition aged from six years to 18 years.

The application for the subsidy can be sent to the local office of labour, social affairs and family (in the place of the person’s permanent or temporary residency) from 1 June 2022 to 31 August 2022. Application deadline 30 September 2022 applies to persons taking care of children with long-term adverse health condition as they were added to eligible groups later (on 28 June 2022) by the Government Regulation No. 228/2022.

Use of measure

The estimated amount to be paid within the whole package of inflation subsidy was €105 million. The estimated numbers of recipients were:
1,120,000 dependent children, 57,748 households in material need, see the case SK-2022-19/2790 , 7,300 surrogate parents, see the case SK-2022-21/2810 , 63,600 informal caregivers receiving homecare allowance, see the case SK-2022-23/2812 , 15,903 personal assistants, 70,637 persons aged 62 and older without income and *3,704 informal caregivers not receiving homecare allowance.

Target groups

Workers	Businesses	Citizens
Other groups of workers	Does not apply to businesses	Older citizens Parents Disabled

Actors and funding

Actors	Funding
National government Public employment service	National funds

Social partners

Social partners' role in designing the measure and form of involvement:

	Trade unions	Employers' organisations
Role	No involvement	No involvement
Form	Not applicable	Not applicable

Social partners' role in the implementation, monitoring and assessment phase:

• No involvement
• Main level of involvement: N/A

Involvement

No involvement of social partners in designing, implementing and monitoring the measure.

Views and reactions

No information on reactions of social partners to the measure.

Sectors and occupations

Sources

• 11 May 2022: Dôvodová správa k Nariadeniu vlády č. 160/2022 - všeobecná časť (rokovania.gov.sk)
• 11 May 2022: Dôvodová správa k Nariadeniu vlády č. 160/2022 - osobitná časť (rokovania.gov.sk)
• 30 May 2022: Inflačná pomoc v sume 100 eur (Inflation subsidy of 100 euro) (www.upsvr.gov.sk)
• 30 May 2022: Overview and conditions of inflation subsidy (Prehľad a podmienky poskytovania inflačnej pomoci) (www.employment.gov.sk)
• 01 June 2022: Nariadenie vlády č. 160/2022 (Government Regulation No. 160/2022) (www.slov-lex.sk)
• 28 June 2022: Nariadenie vlády č. 228/2022 (Government Regulation No. 228/2022) (www.slov-lex.sk)
• 28 June 2022: Nariadenie vlády č. 103/2020 (Government Regulation No. 103/2020 as amended) (www.slov-lex.sk)