Our Minister of Family and Social Services, Derya Yanık, announced that they started to deposit a total of 1 billion 849 million TL Home Care Allowance into accounts this month in order to provide economic support to persons with severe disabilities and their families in need of care.

Minister Derya Yanık reminded that with the Home Care Allowance, which was initiated in 2006 with the idea of supporting persons with disabilities primarily with their families, citizens who have relatives with severe disabilities in need of care and who cannot work because they take care of them are supported.

Stating that with the increase made according to the civil servant salary coefficient in July, the Home Care Allowance within the scope of social service models has been increased from 2,354 TL to 3,336 TL for the July-December period of 2022, Minister Yanık said: "We integrated the electronic information system into the integrated system, in which the Home Care Allowance transactions, which we regularly deposit into the accounts of persons with disabilities, are monitored every month. We make our payments through the new system that enables them to be delivered to those in need in a transparent and fast manner. In this context, we started to deposit a total of 1 billion 849 million TL Home Care Allowance into accounts this month in order to provide economic support to persons with severe disabilities and their families in need of care. This month, 554 thousand of our citizens benefit from Home Care Allowance.”

Emphasizing that as the Ministry, they work to ensure that persons with disabilities fully enjoy their basic rights such as education, health, security and employment, and they develop policies with a rights-based perspective, Minister Yanık said: “With this payment, we are providing a total of 11 billion 353 million TL Home Care Allowance to an average of 544 thousand people in the first 8 months of this year.”