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Residing abroad and eligibility for a solidarity allowance to eliminate the consequences of energy poverty
Summary:

The Pension and Disability Insurance Institute of Slovenia (ZPIZ) explained to a petitioner, a pensioner with a permanent residence in Slovenia, that...

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Starejši
Social Security
Discrimination against Zois scholarship holders due to their material standing
Summary:

Examining the wider issue on the basis of a specific complaint, the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia (Ombudsman) considered the...

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Otroci in mladina
Social Security
Regulations must be interpreted constitutionally consistently
Summary:

The Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia believes that, when dealing with the issue of meeting the conditions to obtain the right to an...

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Invalidi in osebe s posebnimi potrebami  |  Osebe s težavami v duševnem zdravju
Social services
Vacation pay and leave of absence: a right that cannot be arbitrarily restricted or withdrawn
Summary:

The Ombudsman found that the social work centre unjustifiably intervened in the complainant’s right to vacation pay and leave of absence by including...

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Invalidi in osebe s posebnimi potrebami  |  Osebe s težavami v duševnem zdravju  |  Starejši
Social Security
Treatment of people who have recovered from COVID-19
Summary:

A complainant informed us of issues pertaining to recovery from COVID-19. She believes that the introduced measures violate her freedom of movement...

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Covid-19
Social Security
Users cannot lose personal assistance due to an unfulfilled RVT condition
Summary:

If the personal assistance user is waived assistance only because they do not fulfil the RVT condition, this presents an intervention in the rights of...

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Covid-19  |  Invalidi in osebe s posebnimi potrebami
Health care
The right to be absent from work and the right to salary compensation for the purpose of caring for infirm elderly relatives during the COVID-19 epidemic
Summary:

In the event of force majeure that substantially alters the conditions of care provided to persons who were the recipients of services offering...

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Starejši
Health care
Amount of salary compensation in the case of (un)proven COVID-19 disease
Summary:

In her initiative submitted to the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia, the petitioner described her family's experience with the...

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Covid-19