Numerous complaints, must include benefits in income. Intervention with the Minister of Finance

• The Ombudsman explains that the Ministry of Finance has announced work on changing the regulations so that the income of a disabled person - for the purposes of rehabilitation relief - does not have to include the support benefit
• However, citizens ask the Commissioner for Human Rights whether this will also apply to the social pension supplement.
• Due to the influx of numerous doubts, the Commissioner for Human Rights asks the Ministry of Finance whether it will also consider such a change

As reported by the Commissioner for Human Rights, in relation to complaints from citizens who have to include the support benefit in their income - which prevents them from taking advantage of the rehabilitation relief - questions are also being submitted regarding the so-called supplement to the social pension.

The Income Tax Department of the Ministry of Finance informed the Commissioner for Human Rights that at the next opportunity to change the provisions of the Personal Income Tax Act, as part of the government's legislative initiative, the ministry will propose a change to its Article 26, paragraph 7e, so that the support benefit is not included in the income of a person with a disability .

In connection with this announcement, the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights has been receiving questions from citizens about whether the changes will also cover the social pension supplement, so that this benefit is not included in income for the purposes of rehabilitation relief.

The Director of the Administrative and Economic Law Team of the BRPO, Piotr Mierzejewski, asks the Director of the Income Tax Department of the Ministry of Finance, Jarosław Szatański, for information whether the ministry is aware of this problem and, if so, whether it will consider changing the regulations by adding the social pension supplement to the catalogue of benefits under Article 26, paragraph 7e of the Personal Income Tax Act – it was concluded.

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