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14 August 2023, Monday Ankara, TÜRKİYE

Minister Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş: "We started to deposit Home Care Allowance payments to the accounts of beneficiaries in an incremental manner"


Minister of Family and Social Services Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş stated that the Home Care Allowance within the scope of social service models was increased from 4.336 TL to 5.097 TL with the increase made according to the public personnel salary coefficient in July and added: "With the new regulation, we have started to deposit the Home Care Allowance payments to the accounts of the beneficiaries with an increase. In this context, this month we have made a total of 2.8 billion TL Home Care Allowance payment to the relatives of 568.000 citizens who are fully dependent benefiting from Home Care Allowance."

Minister Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş reminded that Home Care Allowance, one of the community-based care service models offered by the Ministry, was initiated in 2006 with the idea of supporting the care of persons with disabilities primarily with their families.

Stating that the Home Care Allowance protected the integrity of the family by supporting citizens taking care of their relatives in need of care, Göktaş said: "As the Ministry, we develop policies with a rights-based perspective for persons with disabilities to fully access their fundamental rights such as education, healthcare, security and employment. We are trying to reach every member of the society with the holistic and fair social service models we have developed. We have paid a total of 17.4 billion TL of Home Care Allowance to the citizens between January-July 2023 within the framework of the vision of a society that leaves no one behind."

The Minister stated that the Home Care Allowance monthly payments within the scope of social service models was increased from 4.336 TL to 5.097 TL with the increase made according to the public personnel salary coefficient in July and added: "With the new regulation, we have started to deposit the Home Care Allowance payments to the accounts of the beneficiaries with an increase. In this context, this month we have made a total of 2.8 billion TL Home Care Allowance payment to the relatives of 568.000 fully dependent citizens benefiting from Home Care Allowance." I wish that the payments will be beneficial to all citizens with disabilities."