Welfare

В конце июля этого года произошел беспрецедентный случай, когда польская компания Konrad из литовского ЗАО Bovarius увезла в Израиль 380 телят. В дороге три теленка погибли. Об этом никто не узнал бы, если бы не волонтеры "Фонда защиты животных" (Animal Welfare Foundation – AWF), которые следили за ...

Gyvūnų apsaugos organizacija „Tušti narvai“ paviešino „Animal Welfare Foundation“ ir „Israel Against Live Shipments“ aktyvistų nufilmuotą vaizdo medžiagą, kurioje užfiksuotos šokiruojančios iš Lietuvos į Izraelį gabenamų veršiukų transportavimo sąlygos. „Tušti narvai“ ragina Valstybinę maisto ir vet...

Lithuania should consider introducing a basic income model that could provide €200 to every citizen, changing the current complex and costly social security system, said economist Nerijus Mačiulis.

The Lithuanian government and parliament groups have agreed to set up an unemployment fund. The money would be used to pay benefits to people who lose jobs after working at least three years for the same employer.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Social Security Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė visited Rimėnai village in the Alytus region on Wednesday to learn from the municipality and rural communities how to help disadvantaged families escape from violence, alcohol and poverty.

A member of the Lithuanian parliament has proposed legal amendments denying benefits to individuals who indulge in "anti-social behaviour".

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The gap between revenue and expenditure of Lithuania's State Social Insurance Fund, the Sodra, next year is expected to narrow by around 48 percent to 95.494 million euros, according to its draft 2016 budget.

There are plans in the upcoming school year to provide around 80,000 schoolchildren in Lithuania with free school lunch. The state is also to give financial assistance to 78,000 children with purchasing school supplies.

Lithuania is often described as a country where potential investors are put off by a tax system inherited from the Soviet times and inflexible labour code. Still, the new social model, currently in the works and promised to provide more flexible employer-employee relations, have received a fair deal...

Norway ranks as the world's best place to be a mother in the annual scorecard released by Save the Children on Monday.

I would like to present an innovative way of seeing how the welfare state can mitigate wide-spread socio-economic risks and measure individual vulnerability to poverty. This will help address the issue of whether we are living in a society of risk and anxiety or whether the welfare state, with its s...

Norway's Ambassador to Lithuania Dag Malmer Halvorsen says that children are rarely taken from their Lithuanian families in Norway.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway has promised Lithuanian Ambassador in Oslo Izolda Bričkovskienė to put every effort to officially confirm that a seven-year-old Lithuanian boy who was returned from Sweden is indeed in Norway. The boy's mother attempted to take her son out of Norway, where t...

Lithuanian Seimas opposition leader, conservative Andrius Kubilius, has asked President Dalia Grybauskaitė to veto the draft budget for 2015 of the State Social Insurance Fund Board under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour (Sodra) which was adopted by the Seimas.

The Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday adopted the 2015 budget for the state social insurance fund, Sodra, that provides for bringing sickness and unemployment benefits back to the pre-crisis level from January and raising pensions from July.

The Latvian Welfare Ministry proposes to not only set a new minimum monthly income level, but also to alter the minimum pension and non-taxable minimum income, informs LETA.

A poll commissioned by Aviva Lietuva shows that almost half, or 49 percent, of respondents hope to receive retirement pensions equal to their current salaries, while 39 percent have even higher expectations and hope to receive bigger pensions than their current monthly income.