Benefits for covering basic living needs
Social welfare (guaranteed minimum allowance)
What:An allowance granted for the purpose of covering basic living needs to persons who lack the financial resources to cover their basic living needs; it is granted in the monthly amount.
Who: Persons who lack the financial resources to cover their basic living needs, where such persons fulfil all of the requirements stipulated by law.
Where:Social welfare centres: https://mdomsp.gov.hr/adresar
Occasional benefits
a) One-off allowance
WHAT: An allowance that may be granted to a single person or a household unable to cover their basic living needs due to current financial difficulties, caused by the birth or schooling of a child, illness or death of a family member, natural disaster, etc., or granted for the purpose of acquiring essential household items or essential clothing and footwear, where it is not possible to acquire such essential household items, clothing and footwear in cooperation with humanitarian organisations.
WHO: A single person or a household unable to cover their basic living needs due to current financial difficulties.
WHERE: Social welfare centres: https://goo.gl/QQgN6S
b) Occasional financial aid
WHAT: Caritas Croatia offers occasional financial aid to socially disadvantaged families.
WHERE:
Caritas Croatia
Web: www.caritas.hr
E-mail: caritas.croatia@caritas.hr
Ksaverska cesta 12a, Zagreb
Phone: +385 1 5635045
Google Maps: https://goo.gl/FgKiHf
Address book of Caritas in Croatian dioceses: https://goo.gl/cNkKh0