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Social Assistance-Employment Link in Turkey

Learn about the link between social assistance and employment in Turkey, including the implementation of incentive programs and sanctions for beneficiaries. Find out the challenges and planned development steps in this process.

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Social Assistance-Employment Link in Turkey

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  1. Social Assistance – Employment Link in Turkey Ersin KAYA Senior Specialist, Former Head of Employment Department

  2. OVERVIEW Population: 77.695.904 Labor Force: 28.970.000 Employmentparticipationrate: % 50,5 Unemployed: 3.096.000 Unemploymentrate: % 10,7 Socialassistancebeneficiaries: 3.005.898 household Below 2,15 $ per capita per day % 0,06 Below 4,3$ per capita per day % 2,06

  3. INSTITUTIONS WORKING FOR THE RELATION

  4. HISTORY OF THE RELATION • Progress plans • 2010, Economic Coordination Committee decision • Activating the Relation between Social Assistances and EmploymentProtocols • Integration of Turkish Employment Agency database and Integrated Social Assistance Services Information System

  5. As of 14.07.2014, by means of all Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundations, a new model has started to be implemented which anticipates incentive on condition that social assistance beneficiaries should attend employment-generating activities and envisages sanction in case they do not attend those activities. These are the features of the new model: Work Flow Chart.pdf

  6. STATISTICAL DATA

  7. CHALLENGES Not be enough vacancies in the IŞKUR database. IŞKUR job opportunities requires a professional qualification. But the vacancies can not be paired with the CV of SAB. Trouble to access and use theIŞKUR portal

  8. PLANNED DEVELOPMENT STEPS Activitieswill be improvedwithTEA . Implementation of incentivesupportsandsanctionwill be improved. Ifsocialassistancebeneficiariesemployed, theemployer and/or the employee share of socialsecuritypremiumswill be subsidized.

  9. KINDLY SUBMITTED FOR YOUR INFORMATION General Directorate of Social Assistances www.sosyalyardimlar.gov.tr FormerHead of EmploymentDepartment (ersin.kaya@aile.gov.tr)

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