Social Services

Social services are one of the forms of social assistance for people in an unfavourable social situation. Through these services the state supports the social inclusion of persons in an unfavourable social situation and the fulfilment of their social needs.

Types of social services: 

• social services ensuring necessary conditions for the satisfaction of the basic necessities of life,
• social services supporting families with children,
• social services for persons of pension age and persons with severe disabilities,
• social services using telecommunication technologies,
• support services.
   

The role of the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic is to ensure a peaceful future for all. It designs legislation concerning social insurance and pensions to protect a large part of the population from the risks in life while also ensuring the just redistribution of pensions in the national economy.

The Section of Social Insurance and Pension Saving of the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic administers a set of goals, instruments and methods which ensures income for the economically inactive population. The pension scheme concerns every one of us, but various benefits and obligations resulting from it are provided to individual groups of the population in various stages of their lives.