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17 February 2024, Saturday Ankara, TÜRKİYE

Minister of Family and Social Services Göktaş: "The Ministry has started to pay Home Care Allowance payments to the accounts of the rights holders in an incremental manner”


Minister of Family and Social Services Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş stated that the Home Care Allowance, which provided economic support to citizens with full dependency and their families, was increased from 5.097 TL to 7.608 TL with the increase made according to the public personnel salary coefficient in January and said, "With the new regulation, the Ministry has started to deposit the Home Care Allowance payments to the accounts of the beneficiaries with an increase. In this context, a total of 4.2 billion TL Home Care Allowance payment has been made this month."

Minister Göktaş reminded that Home Care Allowance, one of the most important family-oriented care service models offered by the Ministry, was launched in 2006 with the idea that persons with disabilities would be supported primarily by their families. Göktaş said, "The Ministry prioritizes the care of persons with disabilities at their homes in a way preserving the family integrity. The Ministry supports the protection and strengthening of the family unity of persons with disabilities by supporting them to live with their family or relatives without leaving the environment where the persons with disabilities live with Home Care Allowance."

Emphasizing that family integrity was protected by supporting citizens taking care of their relatives with full dependency in need with Home Care Allowance, Göktaş said: "We are trying to reach every member of the society with the holistic and fair social service models developed. The Ministry has 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."

Minister Göktaş stated that the Home Care Allowance, which provided economic support to citizens with full dependency and their families, was increased from 5.097 TL to 7.608 TL with the increase made according to the public personnel salary coefficient in January and said, "With the new regulation, the Ministry has started to deposit the Home Care Allowance payments to the accounts of the beneficiaries with an increase. In this context, a total of 4.2 billion TL Home Care Allowance payment has been made to the relatives of 558.000 citizens with full dependency benefiting from Home Care Allowance this month. I wish that the payments will be beneficial to all citizens with disabilities."