{"id":1169,"date":"2014-11-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/14-11-2014-institute-economic-and-social-studies-iness-rroma-in-slovakia-are-not-financially-advantaged\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:41:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T10:41:57","slug":"14-11-2014-institute-economic-and-social-studies-iness-rroma-in-slovakia-are-not-financially-advantaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/14-11-2014-institute-economic-and-social-studies-iness-rroma-in-slovakia-are-not-financially-advantaged\/","title":{"rendered":"14.11.2014 Institute Economic and Social Studies (INESS): Rroma in Slovakia are not financially advantaged"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Slovak Spectator \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(2014) reports on the publication of a new study by the Slovak Institute for \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEconomic and Social Studies (INESS). The study comes to the conclusion that \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRroma, contrary to widespread stereotypes and myths arguing that the minority receives \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\texcessive social funds, are not treated differently by the state. The study \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talso refutes established ideas about the high number of children among Rroma. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe analysis came to the conclusion that 90% of the families who receive child \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbenefits, have one or two children: \u201cNOT \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\teven 2.2 percent of total public spending goes to Roma citizens even though \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthey are often depicted as those who abuse the social welfare system in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSlovakia. This is the finding from an analysis conducted by the Institute for \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEconomic and Social Studies (INESS) released on October 22. The think-tank \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlooked into numbers provided by the Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand Family (\u00daPSVaR), social insurer Soci\u00e1lna Pois\u0165ov\u0148a and the Atlas of Roma \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCommunities and concluded that the costs of welfare paid in districts with a \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttwo-thirds Roma population makes up 2.2 percent of public spending, which is \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u20ac578 million. \u201cEven though Roma are proportionally higher recipients of public \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttransfers these don\u2019t amount to such a proportion of public finances as is \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdiscussed in inns or at the family table,\u201d INESS analyst J\u00e1n Dinga, one of the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tstudy\u2019s authors, told The Slovak Spectator.\u201d <\/em>Jarmila Laj\u010d\u00e1kov\u00e1 from the Research \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCentre for Ethnicity and Culture also pointed out that the misinformation and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tprejudice about the alleged preferential treatment of the Rroma in the social \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsystem complicates the integration of the minority, because they are confronted \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twith these prejudices when trying to access the education system and the labour \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmarket. In Slovakia, according to assessments of the Rroma Foundation, there are \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tan estimated 450,000 to 550,000 Rroma. Many of them belong to the middle class, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thave educations and their own apartments. They are almost constantly hidden in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe public debate over the minority. <\/p>\n