It is progressing in the acceleration of the implementation of public benefit programs in favor of the beneficiaries the Ministry of Labor and Social Security. With an amendment he tabled in the Parliament Ministry of Labor and Social Security, which was discussed today Wednesday, the sub-par. ID.1. paragraph 14 of the first article of Law 4152 /2013.

As the Ministry of Labor states in its announcement, the amendment concerns the public benefit programs of the Public Employment Service (PYPA), with the object of employing the unemployed, either directly in municipalities and Regions, or in NPDDs and NPIDs supervised by them, or in other public services and NPDDs and NPIDs supervised by ministries.

“With the proposed amendment,” said the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Domna Michailidou, “we extend the possibility of financing the programs from the resources of the competent or co-competent ministry as the case may be. In this way, greater flexibility is provided and the orderly and immediate implementation of public benefit programs is improved.”

The current law provides that, for the implementation of the programs, DYPA can be subsidized by resources of the national and co-financed part of the Public Investment Program (PIP) or the regular budget of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security. That is, even if a program is designed for an entity supervised by another ministry, its funding comes from the resources of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security. “This restrictive provision, which is in force, causes delays and prevents the orderly implementation of the programs to the detriment of the potential beneficiaries” the announcement points out.