Minister of Family and Social Services Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş announced that the Ministry would continue its employment-friendly social assistance approach in order to bring social assistance beneficiaries into the labor market and strengthen the link between social assistance and employment.

In this context, Minister Göktaş stated that social assistance beneficiaries would continue to benefit from vocational training, employment and Community Benefit Program (TYP) provided by İŞKUR.

Underlining that 82 % of social assistance beneficiaries were unable to work due to disability, ageing, illness or care, Minister Göktaş said, "In this direction, we will continue with efforts to bring social assistance beneficiaries into the labor market and strengthen the link between social assistance and employment towards an employment-friendly social assistance approach."

"We referred 140.131 people to İŞKUR in 2022"

Minister Göktaş stated that the Ministry directed social assistance beneficiaries who were able to work since 2010 and said, “We provide Job Referral Assistance up to a maximum of 10 percent of the monthly net minimum wage. Within this scope, the Ministry directed a total of 140.131 individual to IŞKUR in 2022. If social assistance beneficiaries are referred to work by IŞKUR, the Ministry provides Job Referral Assistance for a person to go to job interviews and for the expenses at the application / acceptance stage, for one time a month and a maximum of 3 times a year.”

Stating that the Ministry provided various types of support within the scope of Job Referral Assistance as well as Job Initiation Assistance, Minister Göktaş said, “The Ministry will provide 4.471 TL support this year, while it was 2.157 TL last year. If social assistance beneficiaries who are directed to work by İŞKUR are employed by private sector employers, we will cover the insurance premiums that the private sector employers are obliged to pay for one year."

Minister Göktaş underlined that those benefiting from Job Referral Assistance and Job Initiation Assistance did not lose their conditional education and conditional health aids for 12 months, and that they were given priority in education and food aids.