The risk of poverty—particularly affecting families with children and pension-age residents—cannot be reduced through isolated short-term measures alone, according to an interim evaluation report by the Ministry of Welfare on social protection and labour market policy, which the government has taken note of. The report assesses the implementation of the Social Protection and Labour Market…

The proposal to merge the Ministry of Health of Latvia and the Ministry of Welfare of Latvia is “categorically unacceptable,” as the priority should be addressing problems in the healthcare sector rather than “tampering with a ministry that is currently functioning well,” Welfare Minister Reinis Uzulnieks (Union of Greens and Farmers) told the LETA news […]

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