Social Assistance – Employment Link in Turkey 1

Population: Labor Force: Employment participation rate: % 50,5 Unemployed: Unemployment rate: % 10,7 Social assistance beneficiaries: household Below 2,15 $ per capita per day % 0,06 Below 4,3 $ per capita per day % 2,06 OVERVİEW 2

General Directorate of Social Assistance (GDSA) and Turkish Employment Agency (TEA) TEA Service Points Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundations (SASF) INSTITUTIONS WORKING FOR THE RELATION 3

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

STATISTICAL DATA OUTCOMES OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE- EMPLOYMENT LINK AS OF ACTIVITIES TOTAL Registered Directed Towards Vacant Job Employed Applied To Courses Attended Courses

As of , 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 NEW MODEL 6

INCENTIVE SUPPORTS INCENTIVE SUPPORTS FOR EMPLOYMENT 378 TL ONE- TIME ASSISTANCE FOR START WORKING 40 TL – 100 TL JOB GUIDANCE ASSISTANCE PRIORITY IN HEATING, EDUCATION AND FOOD ASSISTANCES NOT TO CUT OFF CONDITIONAL EDUCATION AND HEALTH ASSISTANCEs FOR 12 MONTHS 7

SANCTION Not attending employment- generating activities without good cause They do benefit from central and in-kind assistances, but cash assistances. 8

Outcomes of the new model ( ) ACTIVITIES Registered/Updated Directed Towards Vacant Job5.007 Employed608 Applied To Courses148 Job Guidance Assistance570/ TL Assistance for Start Working104/ TL STATISTICAL DATA 9

Activities will be improved with TEA. Implementation of incentive supports and sanction will be improved. If social assistance beneficiaries employed, the employer and/or the employee share of social security premiums will be subsidized. PLANNED DEVELOPMENT STEPS 10

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