2022
These past few years, full of misery and terror, the Slovakia Anti-Poverty Network has focused on strengthening the physical and mental health of the most affected groups:
- Seniors
- excluded groups – especially children and youth
Today, there is a new reality for poor people. The ‘unbearable cost of living’ is the priority of the EU PEP Meeting 2022. People experiencing poverty with minimum income, with existing minimum wage, with minimum old age pension can’t live on a constant struggle.
2021
Poverty Watch Main Findings
Most Affected Groups
Roma people
Single women with children
Children
Working poor
People with disabilities
Main Priorities
- Improving the digitalisation process in society.
- Minimum income.
- Social protection.
- Fair wages and decent work.
- Access to essential services.
- Education
- Training and lifelong learning.
2020
Almost a million people live in Slovakia below the poverty line. Greater poverty is expected to also affect Europe, including Slovakia. In Slovakia, currently 16.3% of families are below the poverty line, which represents 872 thousand people. As a result of the pandemic, another 50,000 people may be in this category.
Poverty Watch Main Findings
Most affected groups
Children
Families with 3 children or more
Single parents
National minorities
Seniors
Homeless people
The unemployed
Main priorities
- Minimum wage!
- Reducing in-work poverty
- Assistance in material need
- Reducing the gender pay gap
- Minimum pensions
- Increasing living wages
Contact details
Slovenska siet proti chudobe (SAPN)
03204 Liptovsky Ondrej, (Slovakia)
Tel/fax: +421 905 602 993
E-mail: Anna Galovicova: slovindia (@) hotmail.com; sapnoffice@gmail.com