| Abstract [eng] |
Taking into account the complicated situation of social indicators in Lithuania, the master's final project carries out the analysis of the process of implementation of monetary social support through the case of Jurbarkas district municipality. Growing consumer goods prices, insufficient living income, high income differentiation and the associated poverty growth, aging society and decline in unemployment not all over Lithuania make up the need to ensure proper coordination of the monetary social support mechanism. Namely, the provision of monetary social support in the form of a certain social allowance or compensation is intended to facilitate the living conditions of those persons who, because of the problems mentioned, cannot satisfy their essential physiological needs. Today, monetary social support is already granted to 122 thousand people of the country, and the relevance of this problem is further confirmed by the fact that this number has grown by almost 27 thousand this year. Since 1 January 2015 all 60 municipalities provide monetary social support by performing an autonomous function of municipalities. Therefore, special attention should be paid to the analysis of cases of specific municipalities. In this case, Jurbarkas district municipality is chosen not by chance - according to the percentage of total number of recipients of monetary social support from the total number of inhabitants of the district, Jurbarkas district falls among those municipalities where monetary social support is granted to the largest number of persons (every tenth of the district's inhabitant). Therefore, the research work was carried out by choosing a relatively small Jurbarkas district municipality, which has not yet been fully investigated on this issue, in order to identify the system for the implementation of monetary social support and to provide recommendations for improvement of this area. So, the subject in this case becomes a new empirical point of view. The aim of the project is to carry out the complex analysis of the implementation of the system of monetary social support in Jurbarkas district municipality. To achieve the goal, three main tasks have been formed: to identify theoretical aspects of monetary social support; to analyze the legal acts regulating the provision of monetary social support and institutional structure; to carry out the analysis of the provision of monetary social support in Jurbarkas district municipality and to identify practical problems of implementation of this support. The first part reveals the conceptualization of social protection, its relation to social policy, analyzes social support and the basic principles of the support coordination mechanism, identifies the main features of the monetary social support system. The second part of the project deals with the legal framework governing monetary social support and provides the institutional framework for monetary social support. The third part presents the research methodology and research methods, the analysis of qualitative (semi-structured interview) and quantitative data (questionnaire survey), which includes the implementation of monetary social support in Jurbarkas district municipality. Research results have shown that in order to ensure proper and effective implementation of monetary social support in Jurbarkas District Municipality, it is necessary to initiate the necessity to change the legislation regulating this area, to seek closer cooperation of institutions coordinating monetary social support in Jurbarkas district municipality with the national level institutions and other territorially operating institutions, as well as to involve local communities more actively in the process of considering and allocating support, and to pay more attention to ensuring better quality of services in the process of administration of monetary social support. In addition, the change in the amount of state-sponsored income makes it appropriate to re-analyze the district budget when assessing the potential of the district to provide a guarantee that social support will reach all those to whom it belongs. The results of the research also revealed that it is necessary to integrate the model of services provided by the municipal and territorial labor exchange into the process of implementation of social support and to ensure the application of the methodology based on the principle of economy. |
