President Karol Nawrocki signed the social assistance amendment in July 2026 while referring it for a posteriori review, raising crucial questions for seniors and people with disabilities. <\/p>\n
Social assistance is an institution of state social policy aimed at enabling individuals and families to overcome difficult life situations that they cannot overcome using their own rights, resources, and capabilities. It supports them in meeting essential needs to live in conditions corresponding to human dignity, regulated mainly by the Act of March 12, 2004 on Social Assistance.<\/p>\n
The main form of assistance from MOPS includes benefits and material aid, such as targeted allowances determined in proportion to actual costs rather than other aid benefits.<\/p>\n
According to the Supreme Administrative Court ruling of June 13, 2025, the role of social assistance authorities is to support those in need toward self-reliance and environmental integration, rather than guaranteeing a constant supply of funds to satisfy all expectations or raise daily living standards.<\/p>\n
In-home care services previously lacked established standards, featuring only general frameworks without detailed rules for service provision or quality monitoring. These new regulations implement milestone A70G of reform A4.6 of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, responding to demographic challenges identified by the World Bank.<\/p>\n
The Constitution of the Republic of Poland assigns four areas of competence to the Constitutional Tribunal, with norm control being fundamental to examine the hierarchical conformity of lower-tier normative acts with higher-tier ones. The Polish system prioritizes posteriori control over active laws, while a priori control remains exceptional and exclusive to the President.<\/p>\n
President Karol Nawrocki signed the law while referring it to the Constitutional Tribunal under posteriori control, agreeing with the direction of standardizing care services but raising serious doubts regarding interference in the constitutionally guaranteed independence of local government units.<\/p>\n
He noted that imposing new, costly obligations without real funding sources risks interfering with Polish local self-government, as local communities are required to organize services from early morning to late evening seven days a week without adequate financial backing.<\/p>\n
The amendment organizes and standardizes in-home care services, establishing uniform legal bases, quality assessment mechanisms, and new requirements for caregivers. It introduces specific conditions for care providers, such as majority age, impartiality, a psychophysical capability statement, and first aid training.<\/p>\n
The amendment adds Article 50b to the Social Assistance Act, stipulating that in-home care services must follow standards defined in a regulation issued by the minister competent for social security. Municipalities are tasked with monitoring and evaluating these services to ensure safety, effectiveness, and purposefulness, excluding informal neighborhood services unless irregularities are reported.<\/p>\n
Care services or specialized care services are granted to single individuals or those whose families cannot provide necessary help due to age, illness, or other causes. These services encompass daily living needs, hygienic care, doctor-recommended care without requiring specialized knowledge, and connecting recipients with their surroundings.<\/p>\n
The act provides a three-month transitional period for existing care providers to complete first aid training and a one-month deadline for submitting psychophysical capacity statements, with the law entering into force 14 days after promulgation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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