The budget of the Ministry of Investments and European Projects (MIPE) has been supplemented by 435 million RON in order to provide social vouchers for disadvantaged children and to meet the payment requests to beneficiaries of the Sustainable Development Programme.
The MIPE budget has been supplemented from the Budget Reserve Fund available to the Government for the year 2024, informs a Government press release.
Thus, 175 million RON will be used to grant the full installment for the 2024-2025 school year of social vouchers on electronic media for disadvantaged pre-school and primary and secondary school pupils and pre-school pupils, according to Emergency Ordinance No. 83/2023.
"Each child whose family needs social support will receive 500 RON in the form of social vouchers. The money can be used for the purchase of school supplies and clothing items needed to attend school and kindergarten," reads the press release.
250 million RON will be used to honour requests for payment/reimbursement to beneficiaries of the Sustainable Development Programme 2021-2027.
Moreover, 10 million RON will be used for the implementation of the investments financed under the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the "Support for business and research, development and innovation" component.
The remaining unutilised amounts shall be returned to the Budgetary Reserve Fund at the disposal of the Government until the end of 2024, reads the release.
MIPE has the role of managing authority for the Sustainable Development Programme 2021-2027, as well as the role of coordinator of reforms and investments for projects under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.
At the same time, MIPE must grant in full the 2024-2025 school year installment of material support in the form of social vouchers on electronic media according to the Government Emergency Ordinance No. l15/2023, the government press release also mentions.