Press Release: Poverty: Commission adopts Romanian programme to use over €441 million from Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived

The European Commission approved on the 28 November 2014 the Romanian Operational Programme to use the new Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD). Romania will receive over €441m (in current prices) in the period 2014-2020 to provide food to those most in need, as well as school supplies to children in difficulty. EU funding will be complemented with over €75m from national resources.

Food delivery is planned to start in winter 2014-2015 and, as of 2015, it will take place twice a year. Beneficiaries will be people living on social assistance, pensioners with low pensions and people whose income is lower than 45% of the minimum national wage.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Poverty: Commission proposes new Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-poverty-commission-proposes-new-fund-for-european-aid-to-the-most-deprived/

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