Announcement
Târgu Mureș
Changes to the reimbursement of accommodation and meals for refugees
According to Government Emergency Ordinance no. 96/2024 of 28 June 2024 on the granting of humanitarian support and assistance by the Romanian state to foreign citizens or stateless persons in special situations, coming from the area of the armed conflict in Ukraine, foreign citizens or stateless persons coming from the area of the armed conflict in Ukraine and entering Romania for the first time since its outbreak, starting with 1 July 2024, are entitled, as a first response assistance measure, to accommodation in temporary camps for accommodation and humanitarian assistance.
During their stay in the temporary accommodation camps, the above-mentioned persons are entitled to:
- a) essential utilities;
- b) emergency medical assistance and qualified first aid.
Beneficiaries are entitled to a monthly lump sum to cover accommodation expenses, granted from the budget of the County Inspectorates for Emergency Situations / Bucharest-Ilfov Inspectorate for Emergency Situations.
The rights provided for above shall be granted for a single period of 3 consecutive months, starting on 1 July 2024. The term is calculated from the date of entry of the beneficiaries on the territory of Romania. Failure to submit the application for the lump sums within the first 3 months from the date of entry into Romania shall not result in the applicant's entitlement being cancelled for the following months.
The lump sums are granted per beneficiary, i.e. per family or per single person if there is no family.
Beneficiaries and previous beneficiaries have the right to be included in national public health programmes.
Beneficiaries and previous beneficiaries who require medical services, sanitary materials, medicines and medical devices other than those referred to in Art. 2 para. (2) letter b) of GEO no. 96/2024, namely emergency medical assistance and qualified first aid, benefit from the basic package of services provided for in the framework contract on the conditions for the provision of medical assistance, medicines and medical devices within the social health insurance system and in its implementing rules, as well as from the medicines, sanitary materials, medical devices and medical services included in the national curative health programmes, as Romanian insured persons, without payment of the social health insurance contribution, of the personal contribution for medicines provided in outpatient treatment and with exemption from the co-payment.
Medical services in specialised outpatient care for clinical specialities included in the basic package of services are provided without the need for a referral note.
Providers are obliged to keep separate records for medical services, sanitary materials, medicines or medical devices provided to persons referred to in Article 4, paragraph. (1) of GEO no. 96/2024 and for which separate invoices are drawn up. The invoices and supporting documents, in the format requested by the National Health Insurance House, accompanied by copies of identity documents and temporary protection documents or copies of medical documents from the providers, for persons who do not have identity documents, are reported monthly to the health insurance funds with which they are in contractual relationship for settlement.
The assumption of medical services, sanitary materials, medicines, medical devices provided by providers shall be made by an extended/qualified electronic signature in accordance with the national and European Union legislation in force on trust services, namely Regulation (EU) No. 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market and repealing Directive 1999/93/EC, Law no. 455/2001 on electronic signature, republished, with subsequent amendments, and the Technical and Methodological Norms for the application of Law no. 455/2001 on electronic signature, approved by Government Decision no. 1.259/2001, with subsequent amendments. Medical services, sanitary materials, medicines and medical devices registered offline are transmitted to the health insurance computerised platform within a maximum of 3 working days from the date on which they are granted. This time limit does not take into account the day on which the medical services are provided and is calculated on the third working day after that date. Medical services, sanitary materials, medicines, medical devices from the basic packages, respectively from the curative national health programmes, provided under conditions other than those provided for by this Emergency Ordinance, shall not be paid to the providers by the health insurance funds.
Health insurance funds are obliged to keep separate records for medical services, sanitary materials, medicines or medical devices provided to persons referred to in Article 4, paragraph. (2) of GEO no. 96/2024 and to settle the amount of their countervalue to the providers, in compliance with the provisions of Art. 4, para. (3) - (6).
Beneficiaries and previous beneficiaries requiring medical services, sanitary materials, medicines and medical devices, other than those referred to in Art. 2 para. (2) letter b) of GEO no. 96/2024, namely emergency medical assistance and qualified first aid, provided that they realise income on which the social health insurance contribution is calculated and due, according to the provisions of Law no. 227/2015 on the Fiscal Code, with subsequent amendments and additions, are obliged to pay it under the same conditions as Romanian insured persons.
The above provisions shall apply to income earned as from 1 January 2025.
Unaccompanied minors benefit from the special protection provided by Law no. 272/2004 on the protection and promotion of the rights of the child, republished, with subsequent amendments and additions.
In the application of national and international legislation, the procedure for cooperation between authorities regarding the entry, registration, transit, stay and protection of the rights of unaccompanied minors is approved by joint order of the Minister of Family, Youth and Equal Opportunities, the Minister of Home Affairs, the Minister of National Education, the Minister of Health and the Minister of Development, Public Works and Administration.
By way of derogation from the provisions of Article VI of Law no. 191/2022 amending and supplementing Law no. 272/2004 on the protection and promotion of children's rights, for unaccompanied minors, placement may also be ordered in residential services organised for a larger number of children than the number provided for in Article 123 of Law no. 272/2004, republished, as amended and supplemented.
By way of derogation from the provisions of Article VII of Law no. 191/2022, residential services in which unaccompanied minors are placed may operate until their return to their country of origin.
By way of derogation from the provisions of Article 62 para. (2) of Law no. 272/2004, republished, with subsequent amendments and additions, the placement of unaccompanied minors may also be ordered for an adult person from the area of the armed conflict in Ukraine who benefits from the temporary protection measure established under Law no. 122/2006, if he/she fulfils the material conditions and moral guarantees to receive a child in foster care.
By way of derogation from the provisions of Article 2 of Law no. 61/1993 on state child allowance, republished, as amended and supplemented, receive the state child allowance and the children of the beneficiaries, as well as the children of previous beneficiaries, if the temporary residence permit contains an address. The address on the temporary residence permit is treated as the domicile or residence.
By derogation from the provisions of Art. 4 para. (1) of Law no. 61/1993, republished, with subsequent amendments and additions, the state allowance is also granted in the situation where the above-mentioned children are in the territory of Romania accompanied by a single parent or in the care of a representative.
Thus, the state child allowance is granted on the basis of an application accompanied by a copy of the valid temporary residence permit and a sworn statement certifying that the minor is in the care of the parent or his/her representative. The model of the declaration shall be established by order of the Minister of Labour and Social Solidarity, at the proposal of the National Agency for Social Payments and Inspection, within 15 days from the entry into force of this Emergency Ordinance, and shall be published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I. If the person holds documents proving the capacity of representative of the minor issued by the Romanian authorities, he shall submit a copy of these documents.
The application and the above-mentioned supporting documents must be submitted to the administrative-territorial unit within the radius of which the address entered on the temporary residence permit is located. Entitlement to the state child allowance is established with the month following the submission of the application.
The state child allowance is paid according to the entries in the temporary residence permit and the option of the parent/representative as follows:
- a) at your domicile or residence, by postal money order, or into a bank account if the temporary residence permit contains a full address;
- b) only in bank account if the temporary residence permit contains an incomplete address.
(6) The other provisions of Law no. 61/1993, republished, with subsequent amendments and additions, shall apply accordingly.
(7) The parents or, where applicable, the representatives of minors have the obligation to prove, every 3 months, starting from the month of submission of the application, that they live at the address entered in the temporary residence permit by submitting a declaration on their own responsibility to the county social inspection and payment agency, respectively of Bucharest municipality that makes the payment of the right, either by electronic means or by registration at its headquarters. The model of the declaration shall be established by order of the Minister of Labour and Social Solidarity, at the proposal of the National Agency for Payments and Social Inspection, within 15 days from the entry into force of this Emergency Ordinance, and shall be published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I.
Failure by the parent or the minor's representative to submit an affidavit will result in the suspension of the state child allowance.
By way of derogation from the provisions of Article 12 para. (1) lit. b) of Government Emergency Ordinance no. 111/2010 on parental leave and monthly allowance, approved by Law no. 132/2011, as amended and supplemented, where the temporary residence permit of the beneficiary or previous beneficiary contains a full address, this shall be treated as the domicile or residence for the purposes of granting the rights provided for in Government Emergency Ordinance no. 111/2010, approved by Law no. 132/2011, as amended and supplemented.
For the purpose of determining the amount of the allowance provided for in Article 2 of Government Emergency Ordinance No 111/2010, approved by Law No 132/2011, as subsequently amended and supplemented, only the income realised in Romania, of the nature referred to in Article 3 of the same normative act, shall be taken into account.
The allowance provided for in Article 2 of Government Emergency Ordinance No 111/2010, approved by Law No 132/2011, as amended and supplemented, shall be granted in compliance with the provisions of Article 12 paras. (6) and (7) of the same normative act.
If the second parent is not on Romanian territory or if he/she does not fulfil the conditions for child-raising allowance, the provisions of Article 11 of Government Emergency Ordinance No 111/2010, approved by Law No 132/2011, as amended and supplemented, shall not apply.
Single persons raising or caring for a child up to 2 years of age, or 3 years of age in the case of a disabled child, after the period provided for in Article 3, paragraph. (2) of GEO no 96/2024 (The rights provided for in para. (1) shall be granted for a single period of 3 consecutive months starting on 1 July 2024), are entitled to a monthly child-raising allowance equal to the minimum level of child-raising allowance provided for in Article 2(2)(a) of the Regulation. (2) of Government Emergency Ordinance No 111/2010, approved by Law No 132/2011, as subsequently amended and supplemented.
The allowance is granted at the request of the parent or the child's representative, submitted to the agency for payments and social inspection of the county or municipality of Bucharest, respectively, in the area of which the domicile/residence registered in the temporary residence permit is located. The application may be submitted in person at the premises of the county social inspection and payments agency or of the Bucharest municipality or electronically. The application shall be completed in accordance with the model approved by the order referred to in Article 13 para. (7) and shall be accompanied by copies of the identity documents of the parents/ representatives of the minor and the children's birth certificates.
The allowance is payable from the month following the month in which the application is submitted and ceases, where applicable, in the month following the child's second birthday or, in the case of a disabled child, the month following the child's third birthday.
Beneficiaries, after the expiry of the period during which they receive the lump sum, as well as previous beneficiaries, may obtain, upon request, minimum inclusion income in accordance with the provisions of Law no. 196/2016 on minimum inclusion income, with subsequent amendments and additions.
By way of derogation from the provisions of Article 6 para. (1) lit. c) of Law no. 196/2016, with subsequent amendments and additions, in the case of the persons referred to in par. (1), a minor accompanied by a single parent or the minor's representative shall be considered a single-parent family.
By derogation from Article 19 para. (1) of Law no. 196/2016, with subsequent amendments and additions, when establishing the right to minimum income for inclusion, children who are hearing children are also taken into account in the composition of the family with children.
By way of derogation from the provisions of Art. (1) and (3) of Law no. 196/2016, as subsequently amended and supplemented, for the purposes of establishing entitlement to the minimum inclusion income, the income realised or registered in Romania, as well as the assets owned by the persons referred to in paragraph (1) and (3) of Law no. (1) in ownership, lease, hire, loan or other form of ownership for which supporting documents can be produced or which are registered in Romania.â
The minimum inclusion income is paid as follows:
a) at your domicile or residence, by postal money order, or into a bank account if the temporary residence permit contains a full address;
b) only in bank account if the temporary residence permit contains an incomplete address.
For detailed information:
GEO 96 2024 on granting humanitarian support and assistance to refugees
Annex-1 Request for first 3 months settlement
Annex-2 Request for settlement of the first 3 months by trustee
Declaration of minor certification
Declaration of minor certification
Self declaration of residence address address residence permit
Self declaration of residence address address residence permit
Apply for monthly child-raising support
Apply for monthly child-raising support