Government plans to increase lowest disability benefit to PLN 1,029.8

In Q2 this year the government plans to adopt a draft amendment to the Social Pension Act to increase the lowest amount of the benefit for total incapacity for work up to PLN 1,029.8 from the current PLN 865.03. According to Art. 4 of the Act of 27 June 2003 on social pension (Journal of Laws of 2013, item 982, as amended), the social benefit is payable to an adult totally incapable of work due to a physical disability that arose: 1) before the age of 18 2) while studying at school or university - before the age of 25 3) during doctoral studies According to the ministry, the purpose of the social pension is to compensate for the lack of the possibility to acquire entitlements to benefits from the social security system due to the fact that the total inability to work took place before entering the labor market. The social benefit is intended for people who, in most cases, never achieve independence in life, live in adulthood with their parents or spend many years in institutional forms of care, such as social welfare homes.