Parliament passed in the first reading amendments to the state social insurance budget for 2023, providing for the reduction of its revenues and expenditures by 55 million lei.
In particular, the draft law provides for the clarification of income and expenditures of the state social insurance budget in order to bring them in line with the amendments to the state budget for the current year in terms of transfers from the state budget to the state social insurance budget. As a result, revenues and expenses of the State Social Insurance Budget for 2023 will decrease by 55 million lei, from 38.735.6 million lei to 38.680.6 million lei. The draft law provides for the allocation of 2 million lei from the state budget to provide allowances for technical unemployment resulting from the state of emergency, siege and martial law and restrictions during a public health emergency, as well as for a 20-million-lei decrease in expenses for social assistance for low-income families and a 37-million-lei decrease in expenses for providing assistance to low-income families during the cold season. The transfers from the state budget to the state social insurance budget will decrease by 55 million lei in the part referring to the current transfers of special means - from 17 billion 169.8 million lei to 17 billion 114.8 million lei. The spending part of the state social insurance budget will see an increase of 2 million lei - from 49.05 million to 51.05 million lei - for the sub-program "Protection of Unemployed People": the state budget will finance the social protection of workers in case of technical unemployment, while the sub-program "Social Protection in Emergency Situations" will be reduced from 1 billion 565.08 million lei to 1 billion 508.08 million lei. The adjusted budget will reflect the real balance of money at the beginning of 2023, which is 51.1 million lei, which represents the difference between the amount of transfers to cover the deficit of the State Social Insurance Budget and the amount of the real deficit registered at the end of 2022, as well as the unused amount from the previous year. According to the Law on Public Finance and Fiscal Responsibility, these amounts are returned to the state budget. // 12.06.2023 - InfoMarket.
