News

21 December 2022

With a unanimous ballot of 17 votes “in favour”, the Members of Parliament from the Labour, Social and Demographic Policy Committee of the National Assembly adopted today at the first reading the legislative proposal of Ombudsman Diana Kovacheva for amendments to the Persons with Disabilities Act and the Health Act aimed to overcome the most serious problems of persons with disabilities related to the delays in re-examinations by medical expert examination authorities and the inability to exercise their rights which is outside their control. 

The Ombudsman tabled her proposal before the Parliament at the end of November and it was supported and put forward by Social Committee Deputy Chair Denitsa Sacheva.

Prof. Kovacheva emphasised before the Members of Parliament that she also proposed a text to eliminate the discrimination allowed with respect to the financial support of war invalids.

The amendments will make it possible to resolve the problems of more than 660,000 vulnerable citizens so that people with disabilities will have access to the monthly and earmarked support, pensions and support they are entitled to until the decisions of the Territorial and the National Expert Medical Commissions.