social aid

Romania's Government is considering steps to recover money provided as social assistance to fraudulent beneficiaries, such as reducing later benefits or creating a repayment schedule, and will check the applicants' real source of income before disbursing such benefits in the future.

The Romanian Government will set the maximum cap on social aid below the guaranteed minimum income, with the view to determining people to get a job, Prime Minister Emil Boc said during a meeting with the Romanian community in New York.

Romania's government plans to introduce a package of laws to reform the social protection system and laws will target to ban social benefits, such as trousseaus for newborns, for people holding "Mercedes cars and villas" and grant it to low-income families, Prime Minister Emil Boc said Friday.