1. OPPORTUNITIES FOR EMPLOYERS
UNDER EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS
AND MEASURES
www.az.government.bg

2. FROM SOCIAL ASSISTANCE TO
EMPLOYMENT
Employers from the real and public sector are
eligible to apply for funding
Target group: unemployed people receiving monthly
social assistance benefits (long-term unemployed
people are a priority)
Provision of funds for salaries and all contributions
(except for the Unemployment Fund) payable by the
employer at the amount specified in the NEAP for the
respective year
Eligible to apply for funding are projects by employers from the
respective municipalities providing employment in socially beneficial and
public activities and projects by private employers providing jobs in
relation to operations improving labor conditions and environment in
buildings and facilities where labor operations take place and annual/
permanent jobs are provided and/or in relation to operations connected
with their major industrial and construction production.

3. NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR EMPLOYMENT
AND TRAINING OF PERMANENTLY
DISABLED PEOPLE
Eligible to apply for funding are real and public sector employers (priority
have employers who have signed contracts for funding as per Art. 25 of the
Integration of Disabled People Act for provision of access to jobs and for
adjustment and/or equipment of work places for disabled people)
Target group: people with permanent disabilities or people who have
undergone successful drug addiction treatment, active-age people
Provision of funds for labor remuneration and all
contributions payable by the employer for a period
of at least 24 months at the amount specified in the
NEAP for the respective year
Persons may be employed on a full-time or part-
time basis.

4. RETIREMENT ASSISTANCE
Eligible to apply for funding are employers
Target group: unemployed people who, as per Art.
68, par. 1 of the Social Insurance Code, lack up to 16
months of length of insurance and up to 2 years of age
to acquire a right to a pension or up to 16 months of
length of insurance at the pension age with no other
NSSI decision on granting a pension based on other
grounds
Provision of funds for labor remuneration and all
contributions (except for the Unemployment Fund)
payable by the employer for a period of 3 – 24 months
at the amount specified in the NEAP for the respective
year
Persons may be employed on a full-time or part-time
basis.

5. NEW JOB OPPORTUNITY
Eligible for funding are employers (priority have
employers who did not carry out massive layoffs
over the last 12 months)
Target group: unemployed people laid-off or
made redundant as a result of the economic
crisis in the country and/or restructuring,
privatization, enterprise or production insolvency
or liquidation proceedings
Provision of funds for labor remuneration and
all contributions payable by the employer for a
period of up to 6 months

6. INCENTIVE MEASURES FOR
EMPLOYERS
Eligible for subsidies are only social and health
insurance expenditures or expenditures for social
and health insurance and labor remuneration
Measures include a job sustaining period equal to
the period of subsidization (except for measures as
per Art. 41, 46, 52, par. 2 and 55e of the
Employment Promotion Act)
Job creation is subsidized subject to the condition
that the employer did not make redundant workers
or employees hired at the same job positions as the
unemployed persons (as per Art. 36, par. 1, Art. 43,
50, 51, 53, 53а, 55, 55а, 55b and 55c) over the last
three months
Employers may fill each announced job vacancy
with more than one unemployed person referred by
the EOD (except for measures as per Art. 41, 46 and
52, par. 2 of the Employment Promotion Act)

7. INCENTIVE MEASURES FOR
EMPLOYERS
Employers may access funds only for social and
health insurance expenditures (for a period of not
more than 6 months), whenever they employ:
persistently unemployed – with a permanently
maintained registration of at least 12 months (Art.
55c)
unemployed people hired for part-time work (Art.
51)
unemployed people aged 50-64 years who
acquired the right to professional pension for early
retirement (Art. 55b)
in events when micro-enterprises employ
unemployed people at the first five created jobs (Art.
50)

8. INCENTIVE MEASURES FOR
EMPLOYERS
Employers are provided with funds for labor
remuneration and all related social and
health insurance contributions (for a period of
not more than 6 months), whenever they
employ:
unemployed young people aged up to 29 years
(Art. 36, par. 1)
unemployed young permanently disabled people
aged up to 29 years, including people with war
disabilities and young people from social
institutions who have completed their education
(Art. 36, par. 2)
unemployed permanently disabled people,
including people with war disabilities (Art. 52,
par. 1)
unemployed people – single parents (or
adopters) and/or mothers (or female adopters)
with children aged up to 3 years (Art. 53)

9. INCENTIVE MEASURES FOR
EMPLOYERS
Employers are eligible to be provided with funds for
labor remuneration and all related social and
health insurance contributions (for a period of not
more than 6 months), whenever they employ:
unemployed mothers (female adopters) with children
aged 3-5 years (Art. 53а)
unemployed people who have served time – if
necessary, they may take part in training conducted by
employers or training organizations (Art. 55)
unemployed people aged over 50 years (Art. 55а)
unemployed people who completed primary or a lower
degree of education for apprenticeship purposes. Mentors
receive supplementary remuneration for the time of their
mentorship (Art. 55d)

10. INCENTIVE MEASURES FOR
EMPLOYERS
Employers are eligible to be provided with funds for
labor remuneration and all related social and
health insurance contributions (for a period not
longer than 6 months), whenever they employ:
unemployed people with a permanently maintained
registration for a period of at least 6 months at created
“green jobs” in economic activities related to
production of commodities and provision of services
facilitating environmental protection (Art. 55e)
unemployed persistently disabled people at
temporary, seasonal or part-time jobs (Art. 52, par. 2)
unemployed people or young people aged up to 29
years for internship purposes (Art. 41 and 46) where
over the last 24 months they acquired vocational
qualification required for the job and without any
professional experience in this occupation

11. TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR FUNDING
EMPLOYERS:
May not have outstanding public liabilities
Shall comply with the granting requirements as
per the State Aid Act
Shall be registered in compliance with the
active legislation
May not have outstanding contractual liabilities
under programs, measures and training events
as well as under Human Resources Development
Operational Program projects
May not have received funds from other
sources for funding the same types of
expenditure

12. For further information:
www.az.government.bg
Phone: 02/980 87 19
Employment Offices