The Parliament adopted in the second reading amendments to the state social insurance budget for 2023, reducing its revenues and expenses by 55 million lei.
In particular, the draft law provides for clarification of the revenue and expenditure parts of the state social insurance budget 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, the revenues and expenses of the state social insurance budget for 2023 will be reduced by 55 million lei - from 38 billion 735.6 million to 38 billion 680.6 million lei. The bill provides for the allocation of 2 million lei from the state budget to provide benefits for technical unemployment resulting from the introduction of a state of emergency, siege and martial law and restrictions during a public health emergency, as well as a reduction of 20 million lei in spending to provide social assistance to low-income families and 37 million lei - the amount of expenses for providing assistance to low-income families during the cold season. Transfers from the state budget to the state social insurance budget will be reduced by 55 million lei in terms of current transfers for special purposes - from 17 billion 169.8 million to 17 billion 114.8 million lei. In the expenditure part of the state social insurance budget, in the amount of 2 million lei - from 49.05 million to 51.05 million lei - the budget of the subprogram "Protection of the unemployed" will increase: the social protection of workers in the event of technical unemployment will be financed from the state budget, and the subprogram "Social protection in emergency situations” will be reduced from 1 billion 565.08 million to 1 billion 508.08 million lei. The revised budget will reflect the real balance of funds at the beginning of 2023 - 51.1 million lei, which is the difference between the transfers to cover the state social insurance budget deficit and the amount of the real deficit at the end of 2022, as well as the unused amount for the previous year. According to the Law on Public Finance and Fiscal Responsibility, these amounts are returned to the state budget. //22.06.2023 — InfoMarket.
