STRUCTURE OF THE SOCIAL WELFARE SYSTEM IN BULGARIA

Several attempts have been made in the new history of Bulgaria to regulate social welfare system. The first law in this area was adopted in 1934. It regulates the issues related to the maintenance of free dinning rooms, shelters,asylums, orphanages in which disabled, blind, terminally ill, mentally ill, are supported by the funds of district charities if they are ill or their relatives who are legally obliged to take care of them have insufficient funds to support them. According to the above-mentioned Ordinance-Law, the social support covers any private or public enterprise which aims to alleviate the situation of the members of the society who need it. To be in need, in its sense is anyone who is unable, alone or through the help of those of his relatives who, under the laws in force, are required to take care of his support, to satisfy his or her immediate living needs, or because of a physical or mental defect cannot, with his own means and labor and without help, maintain his existence. In the structure of social assistance two main parts can be identified - social assistance and social services. Some of the aids are of a universal nature and others aim to alleviate poverty. Their provision is based on social work, applying an individual approach and assessing the specific needs of individuals and families. The social policy of a country is a set of specific activities aimed at regulating the social relations between different in their social status subjects. This approach to clarifying social policy is also called functional and essentially addresses social policy as an activity to regulate the relationship of equality or inequality in society. It provides an opportunity to look for inequalities in the economic positions of individuals in relation to ownership, labor and working conditions, distribution of income and consumption, social security and health, to look for the sources of these inequalities and their social justification or undue distribution. A characteristic feature of this policy is social work (activity). As a term, social work is also understood as a type of profession and as a system of specialized institutions, and increasingly diverse practices that, in order to be effective, should use an integrated knowledge of fundamental human and social groups sciences, knowledge about the society as a whole.