15.04.2022

A NATIONAL PROGRAM WILL FINANCE UP TO BGN 100,000 PROJECTS FOR ACCESSIBLE HOUSING FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

The Minister of Labor and Social Policy approved the National Program for Building Accessible Housing and Ensuring Conditions for Personal Mobility of People with Disabilities. A person with a permanent disability can apply for funding under the program with an individual needs assessment prepared in accordance with the Law on People with Disabilities.

The program will allocate up to BGN 100,000 for a project for the construction of ramps, lifting platforms, elevators in existing residential buildings and adjacent spaces. Owners of individual residential buildings (houses) who have permanent disabilities and move in wheelchairs or whose families have such people can apply for this component for funding. Project proposals can also be submitted by associations of condominium owners in multi-family residential buildings (blocks of flats), among which there are people with permanent disabilities, moving in wheelchairs, or in whose families there are such people.

Up to BGN 8,000 per project will be allocated under the Personal Mobility component. The funds will be provided for the adaptation of a car for driving by people with permanent disabilities or for the purchase of an adapted motor vehicle. Applicants may also receive funding for a driving course. The right to apply for this component have people with permanent disabilities with a proven deficiency of the lower and/or upper limbs and a decision of the medical examination authorities who have a document that they are physically fit to be drivers.

The total budget of the National Program for Accessible Housing and Personal Mobility for 2022 is BGN 2.5 million. The funds have increased by BGN 500,000 compared to last year.