However, the social assistance benefits constitute the largest share of the local budget expenditures for social assistance activities (see the table).

Financial assistance Financial assistance includes the state social benefit system and municipal social assistance benefits.

The Fairness of Financial Rescue

The task of the social assistance benefits is to provide short term support and the benefit is only one form of social assistance.

Flat sum for board

Education grant review of the methodology for determining the level of the grant

The international community had a duty to save UNRWA from bankruptcy by increasing the level of funds and the number of donors.

Save the Children Fund, United Kingdom

Maximum admissible level Maximum education grant

Norway unfailingly responded to the Agency's emergency appeals, and in 2003 it had allocated a total of approximately US 3 million for those purposes. Some of those funds were for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of homes in Rafah.

A survey on the availability of social assistance services for families at the local governments that was conducted in 1999 shows that, irrespective of the negligible benefit amount, families consider the above benefit to be very useful.

Social assistance rates in Yukon have remained unchanged since 1992.

In 2003, some 860,000 individuals received targeted social assistance. The average amount of targeted social assistance was a little over 1,000 tenge.

Education grant review of the level

A. Education grant review of the methodology for determining

E. Review of the level of education grant

E. Review of the level of the education grant

(a) Education grant review of the level

In 2001 the average amount of sickness benefit was LVL 81.74.

(iii) Death gratuity in the event of the death of a member before reaching the age of 60, a lump sum gratuity is payable to the legal heirs.

A rapid increase in aid flows was necessary.

In response to these appeals, the international community reported over US 286 million worth of contributions in cash, kind and services for emergency relief assistance.

Semi retirement pension, old age and anticipatory pensions, and unemployment benefits account for three quarters of all transfers.

Despite low funding, UNRWA had nevertheless managed to continue to provide assistance in the fields of education, health and relief and social services, as well as through its microfinance and microenterprise programme.

In turn, provinces and territories, as well as First Nations, have the flexibility to adjust social assistance or child benefit payments by an amount equivalent to the NCB Supplement, which is used to fund new or enhanced provincial and territorial programs benefiting low income families with children.

Medical care is provided absolutely free for women with incomplete abortions.

We urge other donors to contribute similar amounts.

Annex II to the staff regulations amounts of education grant and special education grant

Overview of UNCDF Support Budgets and Posts

Allowance 100 per cent of the maximum rate of unemployment benefit.

Allowance 70 per cent of the maximum rate of unemployment benefit.

I. Voluntary Trust Fund for Assistance in Mine Clearance total contributions by donor, as at 13 October 1998

(5 of total A, less United Nations subvention)

The Federation's own fund, called the Disaster Response Emergency Fund, helps us to immediately deploy resources to respond to disasters, even before donors assess their ability to pledge any support.

The four municipal social benefits prescribed by the Law On Social Assistance are to be substituted by one benefit a benefit for ensuring a minimum income.

(d) The amount of the special education grant for each disabled child be equal to 100 per cent of the revised amounts of maximum allowable expenses for the regular education grant

The amount of sickness benefit was calculated taking into account conditions contained in Article 67 of the 102nd Convention of the International Labour Organization, providing that the benefit amount should be 45 of the wage of a typical benefit recipient (a man with a wife and two children).

monthly benefits for child care.

(15 of total A and B less United Nations subvention)

A balance of 37,600 remaining in the reserve for programme support costs has been transferred back to the general purpose fund balance.

Data Central Statistics Department (CSD).

UNHCR explained that it could increase the level of funds available or reserve fund balances by reducing budgetary allocations for the programmes, i.e., by reducing the levels of assistance to refugees, as was done repeatedly in the late 1990s and early in the next decade, but that it strives to balance the operational needs of refugees and the need to have sufficient reserves for subsequent financial periods.

These figures do not include the benefits for those foreigners who, up until October 1993, received benefits under the Federal Social Assistance Act (Bundessozialhilfegesetz BSHG) and afterwards under the Act on Benefits for Asylum Seekers.

(b) Systematically charging the 13 per cent of programme support costs (overhead) to programmes grants whenever possible.

190 (d) The amount of the special education grant for each disabled child should be equal to 100 per cent of the revised amounts of maximum allowable expenses for the regular education grant