Social Assistance System Transformation: The Experience of Moldova (UKR)

Moldova inherited the soviet system of privileges and compensations like many other former Soviet republics. In 1990s, about one third of the population received privileges. Over 12 years – from 1997 to 2009 – Moldova passed a complex way of re-organizing privileges and compensations and gradually replaced them with targeted cash benefits to low-income families. Currently, the social assistance eligibility is based on the applicant’s income level and the number of scores for property status.