Initiatives and broader issues

Social Security

01/11/2023

What About Foreigners Who are Not Foreigners Anymore After They Can No Longer Take Care of Themselves?

Summary:

Individuals who have an irregular status of residence in the country, even though they reside there permanently, and who have found themselves in a...

Social Security

01/11/2023

The Scope of the Previously Recognised Right to Personal Assistance Can Only be Replaced by Another Form of Comparable Service

Summary:

The Ombudsman believes that it is possible to reduce the scope of the previously recognised right to personal assistance if the individual is provided...

Social benefits, grants and scholarships

12/30/2022

Persons Renting Beds in a Residential Unit of the Community for Young People on Gerbičeva street in Ljubljana May also be Entitled to a Rent Subsidy

Summary:

The complainant, who lives in a residential unit of the Community for Young People on Gerbičeva street in Ljubljana and rents a bed, was refused an...

Social benefits, grants and scholarships

12/28/2022

Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (MDDSZ) Accepted the Ombudsman’s Position on the Limitation as an Essential Criterion for Determining the Minimum Income Security of Persons with Disabilities

Summary:

The Ombudsman was interested in why persons with the status of a person with disabilities according to the Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment of...

Pension insurance

12/19/2022

Deficient Traceability of Administrative Procedures at the Institute for Pension and Disability Insurance of Slovenia

Summary:

In July of this year, a complainant turned to the Human Rights Ombudsman (the Ombudsman) because they had not yet received a decision on their request...

Health care

12/19/2022

Problems of Persons with Prader-Willi Syndrome in Participating in Medically Supervised Weight Loss Programmes

Summary:

The Ombudsman was informed by the complainants and representatives of persons with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) about the problems of these persons...

Foreigners

12/13/2022

Government acknowledges the need to recognise the social rights of non-residents

Summary:

In the opinion of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia, the sentence of the second paragraph of Article 51 of the Aliens Act...

Health care

11/22/2022

Problems with accessing doctors due to electronic appointments

Summary:

Pobudnica se je pritoževala, da njena mati, stara 77 let, ne zmore uporabljati informacijskega sistema IRIS, ki naj bi se uvajal v Zdravstvenem domu...