CITUB: Gambling and business to fund a fund for people with disabilities

The Confederation of Independent Trade Unions proposes the creation of a special fund for national social solidarity, from which to finance long-term care for disabled people, said on Monday the leader of the union Plamen Dimitrov in Varna . The idea of ​​CITUB is to fill the fund with three sources: gambling, the state budget and business. The proposal for the new fund will be submitted to the Social Ministry by the end of the week.

Bulgaria is one of the few countries where profits are not taxed effectively, Dimitrov said.

Dimitrov also said that the state budget should provide a certain percentage of funds needed for the integration of people with disabilities.

The third income should come from the company, with the system "bonus-malus" popular for insurance. This means that companies will be encouraged to hire people with disabilities and that they will pay funds to the fund when they are unable to do so, explained Dimitrov

The Fund should focus its efforts on all people disabilities. Part of the funds can go to social badistance in the field because tens of thousands of people with disabilities live in small settlements where there is no personal badistant.

This money can be repaired and paid for a number of services. For example, Assy Goneva, CITUB National Secretary

"Mothers with disabled children are right, they need huge resources to help them. The Ombudsman Maya Manolova, who is trying in part to solve the problem of a law, is not right, said Plamen Dimitrov. According to him, hundreds of millions or even billions of levs , are necessary to meet the requirements of the Convention of Human Rights ratified by Bulgaria

For effective badistance, a national map of social services must be written.It will describe how disabled people are on the ground and what are the institutions and opportunities in the region

According to CITUB, 1310 people with disabilities work in the country.They serve 35,000 people.In order to integrate the most vulnerable groups, all ministries should be involved , not the burden being distributed to the social service only, according to CITUB

The Integration Addition System needs to be reconsidered, says the union, they must be flexible in relation to the degree of damage Some of these supplements or aids must be in cash, another part – in kind, depending on the needs of the particular person.