Moldova's Social Inspection to be renamed, to have additional control fields

Chisinau, 28 December /MOLDPRES/ - The Social Inspection will be reorganized  and renamed into the State Social Inspectorate, subordinated to the Labour and Social Protection Ministry. The cabinet approved a decision to this end today, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.    

At the same time, the new document sees the assigning of additional fields of control to the State Social Inspectorate. Among them, there is the establishing of the right and providing the compensation for the transports services to the disabled people and the issuance by social assistance territorial structures of documents which confirm the right of the people with disabilities of the locomotor apparatus to import, once in 5 years, a transport means with exemption from import taxes.   

Also, the State Social Inspectorate will have powers to establish the right and provide compensations for the payment of the energy invoices, providing allowances to some categories of children and young people, as well as allowances for the bringing up and taking care of children placed in the guardianship services, professional parental assistance and family-type children’s home.    

The amendments made will contribute to the consolidation and enforcement of measures of control and prevention of the fraud and corruption risks in the social assistance sector, making more responsible the providers of social services, for the unitary enforcement of the legal provisions in the national social assistance system, and to ensuring the observance of the citizens’ social rights.    

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