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Act on Amendments to the Social Welfare Act and the General Part of Social Legislation Act (special welfare services)

menetlusse voetudEstonia· Riigikogu· ET

Introduced

14 September 2026

Last action

14 September 2026 · MENETLUSSE_VOETUD

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MENETLUSSE_VOETUD

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Vabariigi Valitsus

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14 September 2026

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Summary

The purpose of the draft is to simplify the application for special care services, the assessment of a person's need for help and referral to the service. Currently, the person, the local government and the Social Insurance Board often have to repeatedly submit or collect the same data and assess the need for assistance in parallel. The amendment enables local governments and the Social Insurance Board to cross-use existing assessment data, and procedures for special care services are STAR. When referring to the service, the urgency of the person's need for help will be taken into account more than before. For the person and their loved ones, the change means less administration and repeated submission of data and a better chance to get help according to the urgency of the need. The development of services close to home is also supported: local governments can offer their own service points primarily to the residents of their region. It also becomes easier calculation of compensation for the missing part of the person's deductible. For service providers, the overview of a person's need for help and support improves, and legal clarity in the organization of services increases. For local governments and the Social Insurance Board, duplicative assessment, repeated collection of data and other workload related to procedures should be reduced. Transferring procedures to STAR enables better cross-use of data and digitalization of processes by changing organization of special care services as a whole, simpler and more needs-based.

Machine translation from Estonian. The official text remains authoritative.

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  1. 14 September 2026

    MENETLUSSE_VOETUD

    Source: SE

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