In 2024, there was allocated 1 491.15 million EUR for social protection benefits, which is an increase by 18.0 percentage compared to 2023. Total social protection expenditures increased due to the increase in total expenditures for social protection benefits in the function Sickness/Health care, Disability, Old age, Survivors and Unemployment.

In 2024, the amount of social protection benefits representing 98.0 percentage of the total social protection expenditure, which is an increase of 0.2 percentage points compared to the previous year.

By type of social protection, in 2024, the largest share of the total expenditure for social protection benefits refers to function Old age 539.32 million EUR, i.e. 36.9%, while function Sickness/Health care is 453.19 million EUR, i.e. 31.0%. The third group by the amount of expenditures on social protection benefits was function Survivors, amounted 172.56 million EUR, i.e. 11.8%, followed by function Disability, Family/Children, Unemployment and Social exclusion not elsewhere classified.

Compared to the previous year, in 2024, an increase of share of the expenditures in total expenditures for social protection benefits were in the function Old age (by 3.4 percentage points), function Survivors (by 1.5 percentage points) and function Disability (by 0.4 percentage points). On the other hand, a decrease of share expenditures in total expenditures for social protection benefits were in: function Family/Children (by 2.5 percentage points), function Sickness/Health care (by 2.2 percentage points) and function Unemployment and Social exclusion not elsewhere classified (by 0.3 percentage points). Data are presented in Table 1.

In all social protection functions in Montenegro, excluding the function Sickness/Health care, the largest share of all social protection benefits was allocated to cash benefits. Data are presented in Table 3. 

The largest share of social protection benefits by function non-means tested in 2023 and 2024 refer to function Sickness/ Health care, function Disability, and function Unemployment. Data are presented in Table 4.

In 2024, 1497.50 million EUR was allocated for social protection receipts, which is an increase by 17.7 percentage compared to 2023. Data are presented in Table 5.