In 2022, there was allocated 1 103.89 million EUR for social protection benefits, which is an increase by 16.3 percentage compared to 2021. Total social protection expenditures increased due to the increase in total expenditures for social protection benefits in the function Family/Children, Sickness/Health care, Old age, Survivors and Disability.

In 2022, the amount of social protection benefits representing 97.9 percentage of the total social protection expenditure, which is an increase of 0.4 percentage points compared to the previous year.

By type of social protection, in 2022, the largest share of the total expenditure for social protection benefits refers to function Sickness/Health care 399.04 million EUR, i.e. 36.9% while function Old age 365.63 million EUR, i.e. 33.8%. The third group by the amount of expenditures on social protection benefits was function Survivors, amounted 107.99 million EUR, i.e. 10.0%, followed by function Family/ Children, Disability and Unemployment.

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