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On Wednesday (12 March), the government held another meeting. The ministers appointed Rudolf Huliak as a member of the Slovak Government Council for Drug Policy. The cabinet also approved a new helpline and support for municipalities to build new capacity in kindergartens.
Simplification and digitisation of processes
Last year, the Social Insurance Institution focused mainly on simplifying and digitising processes for the Slovak population. It wants to continue with further measures, in particular the paper-based system of the pension section, which is mainly used to calculate pensions, should undergo a change by 2029 and be replaced by an online version.
Between 2024 and 2029, the aim is to streamline the organisational structure, improve the quality of services for the people or prepare a paperless office concept and replace it with an electronic agenda.
Contribution to municipalities for expenditure in the Recovery Plan
The Ministry of the Interior will provide EUR 600 000 from its VAT budget to municipalities in connection with the financing of projects under the Recovery and Resilience Plan.
The Ministry said that it had also consulted the Ministry of Finance, which had issued a favourable opinion on the move.
Change in the monitoring of the Recovery Plan
The Government approved an amendment to the EU-SR Operational Agreement on the Recovery and Resilience Plan. The change is related to the addition of the REPowerEU chapter to the Recovery Plan.
The amendment to the Operational Agreement will be made through an exchange of letters between the Government of the Slovak Republic and the European Commission. On behalf of the SR, the Deputy Prime Minister for Recovery Plan and Knowledge Economy will ensure the appropriate notification of the change through the National Implementation and Coordination Authority.
Illegal migration across the Slovak border
Illegal migration across the Slovak border fell by more than 94 percent last year. Secondary transit migration by 99.9 per cent.
Currently, according to the material, illegal migration on the Slovak-Ukrainian border dominates on Slovak territory. An increase of over 280 per cent, i.e. 914 foreigners, was recorded there. Almost exclusively men of draft age cross this border outside the border crossing points.
Proposal for new members to the EESC
The Government has approved the proposal for new members to the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) for the period 2025 to 2030. The five-year term of office of the EESC members for Slovakia will end in September 2025, so the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family (MoLSW) of the Slovak Republic is proposing nine representatives from employers, employees and various interest groups.
The MoLSA proposes to nominate new members to the EESC, namely Emil Machyna from the Union of Pensioners of Slovakia to replace Jozef Šumichrast from the Slovak Chamber of Agriculture and Food. Juraj Sipko from the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) could also become a new member of the EESC, replacing Miroslav Štefánik, also from SAV.
Remuneration of the Director-General of SP
The CEO of the Social Insurance Institution Michal Tariška will receive a reward of one month's salary, a total of EUR 8,580, for the fulfilment of the strategic objectives of the activities and management of the insurance company.
For example, Tariška will be rewarded for the development of the electronic insurance account, which is becoming the main communication channel with the Slovak population, with the number of new accounts increasing by almost 30% last year compared to 2023. According to the Ministry of Labour, the SP Director General also deserves a reward for his active cooperation in the amendment of the Health Care Act, which introduced the possibility of terminating temporary incapacity for work by a social insurance assessing doctor, and for introducing other systemic changes in the field of medical assessment, where the aim is to prevent abuse of sick leave. On this basis, the SP recorded a 13.23% decrease in PN in December last year compared to December 2023. The same year-on-year reduction was also visible in January 2025 by 11.75%.
Access to population data
The Ministry of Economy should have access to socio-economic data of residents on request to assess the need for energy cost offsets.
The Ministry will be able to request certain data from, for example, the land registry, the financial administration, the social insurance office or the information systems of energy distribution companies.
"The aim of data collection and analysis is to create and fill a logically structured database operated by the ministry, which will be transformed in the next period into a comprehensive information system for assessing the vulnerability of individual households to energy poverty and the degree of their vulnerability in the creation of a register of consumption points with all the relevant data needed to institutionalize the system of targeted energy assistance," the Ministry of Economy said in the approved material.