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

2. Employment participation rate: % 50,5 Unemployed: 3.096.000
OVERVIEW
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

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

4. 2010, Economic Coordination Committee decision
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

5. NEW MODEL
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

6. INCENTIVE SUPPORTS INCENTIVE SUPPORTS FOR EMPLOYMENT
400 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. Not attending employment-generating activities without good cause
SANCTION
Not attending employment-generating activities without good cause
They do benefit from central and in-kind assistances, but not cash assistances.

8. Outcomes of the new model (14.07.2014-30.09.2015)
STATISTICAL DATA
Outcomes of the new model ( )
ACTIVITIES
Registered/Updated
46.377
Directed Towards Vacant Job
9.438
Employed
2.695
Applied To Courses
428
Job Guidance Assistance
1.341/ TL
Assistance for Start Working
712/ TL
Not Attending to Job without good cause
9.057

9. Not be enough vacancies in the IŞKUR database.
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 the IŞKUR portal

10. Activities will be improved with TEA .
PLANNED DEVELOPMENT STEPS
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.

11. KINDLY SUBMITTED FOR YOUR INFORMATION
General Directorate of Social Assistances
Former Head of Employment Department