site.btaOnly 1.2% of Population Receive Social Benefits, Analysis Shows

Social assistance for people with low income, or no income at all, has an extremely limited scope. Currently about 1.2 per cent of the population receive monthly benefits, while according to National Statistical Institute data, 23.8 percent of the country's population were below the poverty line in 2020. This is stated in an analysis by Lachezar Bogdanov, chief economist of the Institute of Market Economics (IME). The analysis was published on the IME website on Monday.